Dialectical analysis of filial piety

Positive value

First of all, the traditional filial piety concepts of "raising parents" and "honoring parents" have a universal value

The basic meaning of filial piety is to "do good to parents.

The basic meaning of filial piety is to "serve one's parents well. To support one's parents is to ensure that they are provided for in terms of their material needs. Children are raised and educated by their parents when they are young, and when their parents become old and weak and lose their ability to work, the children have a sense of social responsibility to support, help and repay their parents for their upbringing.

For the support of parents only have to support is not enough, more importantly, in the process of support to reflect the "respect". Every person is born without parents and relatives of the nurturing, in this kind of nurturing intimate relationship, will naturally form the children of the nurturing of their parents and relatives of love and respect. Parents are the source of one's life and the most natural and intimate of all human relationships. Therefore, it is hard to imagine that if a person does not even love and respect his parents who gave him life, how can he develop love for others, society and the country? How can there be a sound personality?

The traditional filial piety idea of "raising and honoring one's parents" is universally applicable in any human society, and is therefore an eternal value of human society.

Secondly, the concepts of "supporting and respecting one's relatives" and "honoring one's elders" are conducive to the adjustment of interpersonal relationships and the maintenance of social stability

In the view of the ancients, all interpersonal relationships are based on filial piety. In traditional Chinese society, special emphasis is placed on the family, and the relationship between father and son is the most important in the family, and the moral norms that regulate the relationship between father and son are the "filial piety" advocated by Confucianism. Confucius said, "A disciple enters in filial piety and leaves in brotherhood." (The Analects of Confucius. Mencius said, "Inside is the father and the son, outside is the ruler and the minister, the great Confucianism of human beings." (Mengzi. Gongsun Chou) directly reflects the relationship between children and their ancestors through the relationship between father and son. The relationship of brotherhood is also due to the fact that both parties are born of parents, and we should honor our parents as well as the life created by them. Husband and wife relationships are also made possible by the continuation of the life of the clan, and relationships such as family, clan, and kinship all occur based on blood relations. The teacher-student relationship is a spiritual relationship; the teacher is the source of spiritual life, and thus ancient societies emphasized the importance of treating the teacher as one would a father. Friendships likewise arise from spiritual or cultural relationships, as Zeng Zi said, "A gentleman meets his friends with literature and supports them with friendship." (Analects. The purpose of seeking friends is to enrich our spiritual or cultural life through the power of friends. Therefore, the way of friendship is actually an expansion of the way of teacher, and the relationship between teachers and friends in China is also derived from filial piety. Therefore, filial piety is the basis and starting point for the horizontal extension of Chinese culture into interpersonal and social history, and it is the vertical chain that runs through heaven, earth, people, oneself, one's children, and one's grandchildren.

From the perspective of spiritual mechanism, Confucian culture emphasizes the word "push". It advocates that filial piety should be extended to others, and that the way of loyalty and forgiveness should be practiced. If the spirit of honoring one's parents and respecting one's brothers (i.e., filial piety and fraternal duty) is extended to others, then it will surely be "as old as we are, so are we; as young as we are, so are we" ("Meng Zi. In this way, not only will the nine clans be in harmony with each other, but they will also be loyal to the king as their father, love the people as their own, love their country by pursuing their ancestors, honor their teachers as their fathers, and respect their elders as their fathers and brothers, and so on, so that they will be able to deal with all interpersonal relationships well. If all people in the whole society do "kissing" and "respecting", then the effect of the stability of the whole society can be imagined.

Once again, the traditional concept of filial piety, the filial piety of "making a name for oneself" has created many outstanding talents who are loyal to the emperor and love the country

"The filial piety begins with serving one's parents, ends with serving the emperor, and finally ends with making a name for oneself" (Xiaojing. The chapter of "Opening of the Emperor"). The first thing you need to do is to establish yourself and then you can talk about filial piety. Ancient China's "standing up", is no more than "virtue, speech, success" three immortal, although there is a difference between the three, but on the whole, are no longer confined to the family within the scope of serving parents, but a social cause. As we all know, Confucianism is most concerned about "establishing one's own body". Cultivating one's own body and keeping one's family in order to rule the country and pacify the world are the constant pursuits of Confucianism. The purpose of cultivating one's body is also to rule the world. In this sense, the filial piety of establishing one's own body will lead to the concern for national affairs that worries the world first. Of course, the ancient people to act, build a career of motivating factors is very complex, may be due to a variety of accidental factors, may also be out of the reality of the lure of fame and fortune, however, there is one thing is certain: the parents of the teachings of their hearts had a huge shock force. The traditional concept of filial piety emphasizes obedience to parents, so the authority of parental teachings in ancient society is unquestionable, and its influence is lifelong. There are many such examples, such as Yue Fei's mother to encourage him to fight against the Jin Dynasty, Yue Fei's back stabbed "loyalty to the country" four words of the story of a household name, touching; Yang family generals full of loyalty to the country, the former and the latter, it is due to the old lady She and her husband and wife's sincere teachings and role model demonstration; the Han Dynasty Sima Qian in order to fulfill the wishes of his parents, would rather In order to fulfill his parents' wish, Sima Qian in the Han Dynasty preferred to bear a heavy blow and live in seclusion, completing his father's unfinished "Records of the Grand Historian". It can be seen that the traditional filial piety has also created many outstanding talents for the society, and their performance for the country and the people just also illustrates the patriotic possibilities of pro-parents in the ancient society.