The Theme, Main Contents and Characteristics of Twenty-four Filial Pieties

Theme: Expose 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.

Main content: The Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures is a book telling the story of twenty-four filial sons in ancient China, with pictures, and its main purpose is to promote feudal filial piety. Starting from the feeling of reading Twenty-four Filial Pieties when he was a child, Mr. Lu Xun focused on the strong antipathy caused by reading two stories, Lao Lai Entertains his relatives and Guo Ju buries his son, so as to criticize the feudalism of China's social thought at that time.

Character image: Yu Shun, the hero of Touching Xiaogan's Paradise, is modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness, and strive hard despite his parents' paranoia and doting on his younger brother. In feudal times, he was not free, involuntary, uncomfortable, helpless and depressed. Feudal filial piety, regardless of children's life and death, regards "nausea as pleasure" and "slanders the ancients and teaches future generations bad".

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Creative background: During 1925, when Lu Xun was a university lecturer in Beijing, he was attacked and excluded by the so-called "gentlemen" for supporting the student movement at that time. 1926, the Beiyang warlord government shot and killed progressive students, creating the "March 18th" tragedy. Lu Xun, the author, wrote a series of articles, such as "In Memory of Liu Hezhen", enthusiastically supported the students' just struggle and accused the Beiyang warlord government of cruelty. As a result, he was wanted by the authorities and had to take refuge in Xiamen.

Morning flowers and evening flowers are abstracted from February 1926 to February1October 10, 10. The first five articles were written in Beijing and the last five in Xiamen. They were published in Mangyuan, a bimonthly magazine, with the general title of Resurrection of the Past. An article "Twenty-four Filial Pieties" was first published in1May 25, 926, the tenth issue of the first volume of Mangyuan Semimonthly.

1927 when it was harvested in May, it was renamed as morning flowers and late harvest. Please give me a brief introduction. In July, it was written as a postscript and published by Beijing Weiming Society 1928.

In "Twenty-four Filial Pieties", the author said: "What puzzles me most, even makes me sick, are two things: Lao Lai entertaining his parents and Guo Ju burying his children. Through these two things, it shows that ignorant feudal filial piety is just a deceptive trick. If the gentleman general does not implement it, why should people seriously implement it? " Here, the author criticizes the exposure of feudal filial piety. The author is extremely disgusted with the feudal education system that restricts the growth of teenagers and accuses this kind of education of destroying children's hearts.