The core of China traditional culture is filial piety.

China's filial piety culture includes respecting adoptive parents, giving birth to offspring, being kind to others, being both loyal and filial, and remembering ancestors. It is a cultural system of self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world. Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, which occupies a major position in China's traditional culture, emphasized that "the service of a gentleman is the foundation of benevolence, and filial piety is the foundation of benevolence" when building an ethical and moral system with "benevolence" as the core.

The first chapter of the book of filial piety advocates that "filial piety is the foundation of virtue, and teaching is born from it". It is believed that "filial piety" is the "supreme virtue" of the holy king and the fundamental source of universal virtue education. The Classic of Filial Piety, an ancient Confucian classic in China, expounds filial piety and has become the core book of Confucian scholars' research in past dynasties.

In the implementation of the strategy of governing the country led by Confucianism, all previous dynasties followed the concept of governing the country based on filial piety, and regarded filial piety as the highest virtue and the standard of selecting officials, which was passed down from generation to generation from ancient times to the present.

The reason why Chinese civilization and culture have lasted forever and become the only ancient civilization in the ancient world has a lot to do with Chinese culture based on filial piety culture.

The fundamental reason why Chinese national culture can assimilate countless foreign cultures is that Chinese culture follows the principle of filial piety culture as its fundamental core.

As the core of China traditional culture, filial piety culture has played many roles in the historical development of China:

Personally, I think:

Filial piety is the foundation of self-cultivation By practicing filial piety, personal morality can be gradually improved. Otherwise, if you lose filial piety, you will lose the minimum virtue of being a man.

Throughout the dynasties, people regarded self-cultivation as the basis of governing the country and leveling the world. Self-cultivation paid the most attention to the cultivation, practice and promotion of filial piety.

Today, it is still of great practical significance to advocate filial piety as an important content of cultivating the next generation's moral cultivation.

From family:

Filial piety can guide orderly growth, standardize interpersonal relationships and promote family harmony. Family is the cell of society. Family stability leads to social stability, and family instability leads to social instability. Therefore, Confucianism attaches great importance to the role of the family and emphasizes the use of filial piety to regulate the family. In the new era, it is equally important to emphasize children's respect and support for their elderly parents.

From the national point of view:

Filial piety advocates loyalty to the country. In feudal times, monarch and state-owned time meant the same thing. According to this, Confucianism believes that filial piety should be practiced, parents should be respected at home, and the supreme monarch should be achieved in foreign affairs. The thought of serving the country and patriotic dedication contained in it are positive.

Tell from the society:

The idea of filial piety can standardize social behavior, establish some etiquette systems and adjust interpersonal relationships, so as to unite society, realize the unity of the world and move from chaos to governance. Objectively speaking, filial piety provided the feudal society with an ideological system to maintain social stability and played a positive role in the unification of China.

From a cultural point of view:

As the core of China culture, filial piety culture has shaped the soul of the Chinese nation and become the endless source of the Chinese nation.

Second, the main connotation of China traditional filial piety culture:

The traditional filial piety culture in China is a compound concept, which is rich in content and covers a wide range. There are both cultural concepts and institutional etiquette. From the analysis of respect and support, it mainly includes the following aspects, which can be summarized in twelve words, namely: respect for relatives, support, support for illness, career establishment, advice and a good death.

1, respect your loved ones.

The essence of China's traditional filial piety is to advocate "respect" and "love" for parents. Without respect and love, there is no filial piety. Confucius said, "Today's filial piety means that it can be raised. As for dogs and horses, you can keep them. It's disrespectful. Why not? " In other words, the key to treating parents is not only material support, but also love for parents, and this love is sincere love from the heart. Without this kind of love, it is not only filial piety to parents, but also no different from raising dogs and horses. At the same time, Confucius believes that the most difficult filial piety for children is to keep this kind of "love" at all times and treat their parents happily.

2. Support.

The material basis of China's traditional filial piety is to provide material support for adoptive parents, that is, to support parents and "support from birth", which is the minimum program of filial piety. Confucianism advocates protecting parents first in material life, and giving delicious food to the elderly first. This is very important. Filial piety emphasizes that elderly parents give priority to material life.

3. Get sick.

Old people are sickly, so the traditional filial piety in China regards "caring for diseases" as an important content. Taking care of illness means that the elderly parents are ill, so we should make timely diagnosis and treatment, take good care of them and give more care to their parents in life and spirit.

Step 4 stand up.

"The Book of Filial Piety" says: "Living in the street is famous in the world, and filial piety ends." In other words, children should "make a career" and achieve something. Parents will feel happy, proud and proud when their children achieve success in their careers. So doing nothing all day and living a mediocre life is also unfilial to parents.

5. exhortation.

The exhortation in the Book of Filial Piety points out: "If a father has a son, he will not fall into injustice. Therefore, when it is unjust, the son cannot compete with the father. " That is to say, when parents are unfair, not only can they not obey, but they should persuade their parents to correct their injustice, so as to avoid their falling into injustice.

6, a good end.

"The Book of Filial Piety" points out: "Filial piety is also intimate, so you are born with respect, raised with joy, sick with sorrow, mourning with strictness, five preparations, and then you can be intimate." Confucian filial piety attaches great importance to funerals, and all kinds of etiquette should be done with sadness when holding funerals.

To sum up, filial piety culture is the core component of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the emotional and moral basis of Chinese patriotism.