What does "vernacular" mean in Lu Xun's Twenty-four Filial Pieties?

Refers to people who speak and write vernacular Chinese. Because Mr. Lu Xun opposed writing in classical Chinese and thought that vernacular Chinese was the official language, he wrote Twenty-four Filial Pieties. Twenty-four filial piety pictures are from Mr. Lu Xun's collection of reminiscence essays, "Morning Flowers Picking Up in the Evening".

"Filial piety" is the core of Confucian ethics, the moral criterion for maintaining family relations in China for thousands of years, and the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. In Yuan Dynasty, Guo compiled the stories of 24 filial sons in ancient times into Twenty-four Filial Piety Classics. Later printed books were all equipped with pictures, commonly known as "24 filial piety pictures", which became popular reading materials to promote filial piety. Filial piety is the essence of China traditional culture.

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Starting with the children's books at that time, this paper recalls the feelings of reading Twenty-four Filial Pieties in childhood and reveals the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal filial piety. The stories of filial piety, such as "Seeking carp on the ice", "Old Lai entertaining relatives" and "Guo Ju burying children", are emphatically analyzed, accusing this feudal filial piety of ignoring children's lives, taking nausea as pleasure, "taking unkindness as a training, slandering ancient evils and teaching future generations ill".

The work sharply criticized the tendency of opposing vernacular Chinese and advocating retro at that time. In fact, the story of the dutiful son in Twenty-four Filial Pieties should be very touching. It is a pity that generations of people have covered it with silk and cosmetics, smearing the touching truth into a disgusting sitcom.

Lu Xun wants to tell us through this article that filial piety is justified, pedantry is stupid, blind obedience is sad and defending morality is hateful. How to advocate filial piety is still a question worthy of consideration and discussion for China people now. Those perfect gods who have been painstakingly "decorated" and worshipped and admired cannot touch people's hearts.

What really touches us ordinary people will always be those ordinary heroes, those who used to be cowardly, selfish and hesitant, but finally chose brave, persistent and determined people.