1、《Confucius on filial piety》in the text,what is the main connotation of discussing the filial piety of Wu Confucius? Please combine the content of the text plus

"Confucius on filial piety" in the text, the main connotation of filial piety is discussed there Wu Kongzi

"Unfiliality has three, no later for great"

The most authoritative statement on filial piety comes from Mencius. "There are three unfilial things, and having no offspring is great" is what Mencius said when commenting on Shun's marriage, and the complete original statement is: "There are three unfilial things, and having no offspring is great, and Shun married without telling him that he had no offspring, and the gentleman thought that he had not told him." From the original text, it can be seen that the "no offspring" here refers to the meaning of no offspring (here is a mistranslation, the correct willingness to: there are many kinds of unfiliality, with the responsibility of not keeping offspring as the greatest. Shun got married without telling his parents, which means that he had no offspring, but the gentleman thought that it was similar to telling his parents. "(Failure to fulfill the responsibility of the offspring means not telling the parents about the marriage, not "having no offspring.) Originally, parents should be informed of the marriage, but Emperor Shun did not do so. Emperor Shun was an ancient sage, but was he right to do so? According to Mencius, this was an understandable behavior because the purpose of marrying his wife was to pass on his offspring, and passing on one's offspring is the greatest filial piety. So even though the parents were not told, in the eyes of a wise ruler, it was as if they had been told.

Modernly, some people have suggested that "there are three kinds of unfiliality, and the most important one is not keeping the responsibility of one's offspring. Shun got married without telling his parents, which is having no offspring, but the gentleman thought that it was almost the same as telling his parents (because Shun was out of the house and it was Yao who wanted to marry his daughter to him)." This is a kind of imagination and misinterpretation, the so-called "Shun was out of his home, and Yao wanted to marry his daughter" has no source and no basis, and why did Yao take the initiative of marrying his daughter so that Shun could not tell his parents? What kind of reasoning and logic is this? And it is also illogical to interpret "not fulfilling the responsibility of the descendants" as "not fulfilling the responsibility of the descendants" because filial piety originally means "fulfilling the responsibility of the descendants" to the elders, but how can the greatest filial piety be "fulfilling the responsibility of the descendants"? "? How can the greatest filial piety be "fulfilling the responsibilities of one's offspring"? This is ridiculous.

In fact, the Thirteen Classics Commentary by Zhao Qi, a famous scribe of the Han Dynasty, has long had a complete and authoritative explanation. "There are three unfilial things in the rites, that is to say, a will to follow, set up relatives not righteousness, one unfilial also; family poverty, parents old, not for the salary, two unfilial also; do not marry without children, the absolute ancestor sacrifices, the third unfilial also." Here it is worth noting that the four words of "extinction of ancestral sacrifices", which explains why not marrying without children is the biggest unfiliality. Because as early as the Western Zhou, the Han people have established to respect the Tao of Heaven, ancestor worship as the core of the faith, also known as "respect for the ancestors". In the view of the traditional Han people, human life is continued in the children and grandchildren, through the offspring of the ancestors of the sacrifice, the ancestors of the soul can be rested, the blood line is connected from generation to generation, and forever inheritance, generations of ancestors of the tablets exist in the ancestral shrine, the incense will not be extinguished, which is the beliefs of the Han Chinese people and the spirit of the support. In the view of the traditional Han people, people who are not worshipped will become lonely souls and ghosts after death, and they will not have peace in the ground, which is a very miserable situation. Therefore, not marrying without children is the biggest unfiliality.