Filial Piety and Respect for the Elderly

Because of the influence of Confucius culture, filial piety and respect for the elderly is a virtue of the Chinese people for thousands of years, since ancient times, there are countless examples of this, even if it is an animal, they know that filial piety and respect for their parents, only filial piety and respect for the elderly will be respected by others, those who do not care about their parents have always been the object of people's reproof. We all know that Shun was a legendary ancient emperor, and people of his status would respect his parents. It is said that his stepmother and his half-brother tried to poison him many times, but after Shun knew about it, he did not blame them, and still treated them with respect. His filial piety moved heaven and earth, so elephants plowed his land and birds weeded it, and when Emperor Yao heard about his filial piety, he inherited the throne from him and married his daughter to him.

There is another emperor is Han Wendi Liu Heng, he is the third son of Han Gaozu, in his mother is sick lying in bed can not get up, he is often worried about his mother, in the night often can not sleep, sleep afraid of some situations, often even not take off their clothes, his mother to eat the soup, he had to personally taste, rest assured that his mother will only be allowed to take it, can be said to be a very filial emperor, can be said to be a very filial. A very filial emperor, and his reign focused on the education of virtue, pay attention to the development of agriculture, so that the Western Han Dynasty was very prosperous.

The most impressive story I remember is the one about Ziqian, one of the disciples of Confucius, whose father took a stepmother for him, who had two sons and often mistreated Ziqian by giving his two sons winter clothes made of cotton, but Ziqian was given rushes.

Ziqian and his father went out to pull things because of the cold shivering, the rope fell to the ground, was reprimanded by his father and whipped, and then his father found that he wore clothes made of rushes, and wanted to go home to his stepmother, and Ziqian did not blame his stepmother, but begged his father, saying that the mother in the words of only Ziqian a person to suffer from the cold, but if you repudiate his mother, the three children have to be The mother is not to be blamed.