Assuming that you will preside over this class meeting, please design an opening paragraph to tell everyone about the significance of filial piety to the growth of middle school students.

You can tell a short story about filial piety and then deduce that we should also honor our parents. As follows:

Respectful teachers, dear students everyone good! Today our class meeting topic is, filial piety. Filial piety is a traditional virtue of our Chinese nation. Filial piety can cultivate our connotation, so that we have good behavior, parents gave birth to us raised us we should honor our parents. Filial piety is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, filial piety, is our spiritual virtue, filial piety, can cultivate our emotions.

Raising parents is the most basic obligation of children to their parents, is based on the human concept of repayment. Each person is born by parents, and because of the careful care of parents and grow up, the objective fact of life creation and maintenance of human beings has produced a sense of repayment, that is, in the old age of their parents to make every effort to support their parents, to do the duty of "feeding".

The traditional concept of filial piety not only requires that children do their duty to their parents, but more importantly, that children have a sense of respect and love for their parents. Confucius paid special attention to the "respect for relatives", and the ability to love their parents as the difference between man and beast, gentleman and small man.

Expanded:

As the core of traditional Chinese culture, the role of filial piety culture in the process of Chinese historical development is multi-faceted:

1. Cultivate the body and nourish the character.

Individually, filial piety is the foundation for cultivating one's character. By practicing filial piety, each person's morality can be perfected. Otherwise, if one loses filial piety, one loses the minimum virtue of being a human being. Therefore, Confucianism has always been based on the cultivation of the body. Today, it is still of great practical significance to advocate filial piety and use it as an important element in cultivating the moral cultivation of the next generation.

2. Integration of the family.

From the family, the practice of filial piety can order the elders and children, standardize the order of human relationships, and promote family harmony. The family is the cell of society; if the family is stable, society is stable; if the family is unstable, society is unstable. 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 emphasized that it is equally important for children to respect and support their elderly parents.

3. Serving the country and honoring one's work.

Filial piety promotes the idea of loyalty to the ruler and advocates serving the country with dedication. In the feudal era, the king and the state sometimes meant the same thing. Accordingly, Confucianism believes that the practice of filial piety, you must honor your parents at home, in the external affairs of the Secretary of State, up to the supreme ruler of the country. Although it has the dregs of foolish loyalty to the ruler of the country, the idea of serving the country and patriotism and dedication embedded in it is positive and progressive.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Filial Piety