Why does China culture particularly emphasize filial piety?

This must start with China's totalitarian cultural tradition. In such a culture, people in China regard people as tools. There is a master-slave relationship between people, the strong is the master, the weak is the slave, and social morality is completely biased towards the master. Between parents and children, parents naturally have more power, so they deprive their children of their freedom like the eldest son inheritance system, resulting in the unilateral rule of parents, and filial piety is the ideological tool to maintain this rule. In this way, parents have nothing to hide. Even if their children grow stronger, they will be under the pressure of the whole social ethics. I'm afraid it's not so easy to rebel.

In addition to the natural power difference, filial piety is also a weapon given to parents by totalitarian culture to protect themselves, with the aim of eliminating children's self-awareness. The natural enemy of totalitarian culture is the free development of human nature. In order to strangle this ego in the cradle, society requires parents to strictly control it. Just like giving soldiers weapons in war, filial piety is a spiritual weapon given to parents by totalitarian culture. It hopes to obliterate the calf's natural love and replace it with social education, so that children can obey the master-slave logic and totalitarian morality in society through explicit family life training.

In addition to the relationship with parents, filial piety can also play a role in avoiding problems and transferring social contradictions. Because of overemphasis on filial piety, China people always associate a person with his parents when evaluating him, while ignoring others, which in turn maintains the totalitarian logic of China culture. Although a robber has done many bad things, it seems that he can be forgiven as long as he can feed his old mother wholeheartedly. For the sake of dignity, an artist can only live a poor life, but he will be laughed at for not being filial. It seems that in China culture, the magic of filial piety is infinite. Here I can only use Shakespeare's famous saying, "Filial piety, only this little bit, can turn black into white, ugly into beauty, wrong into right, humble into noble, old people into teenagers, cowards into warriors." It can make the cursed people blessed, let the people suffering from epilepsy win the love of all, let the thieves compete with their elders, and let the yellow-skinned widow become the new bride. "

Filial piety in China culture just uses and defiles this point and turns it into a tool for training slaves. China's social ills, such as filial piety, are stifled.