What is the meaning of the phrase "all good deeds and filial piety come first"?

Hundred virtues of filial piety is the first interpretation:

It means that the behavior of children should not be contrary to the parents, the elders of the family and the forefathers of the heart, is a kind of stabilization of the relationship between ethics and morality. Filial piety is a behavior promoted by traditional Chinese culture.

Filial piety is generally expressed as filial piety and filial respect. Filial piety refers to the affirmation of parental authority in order to repay parents for their upbringing, thus obeying their instructions and commands and acting in accordance with their wishes.

Expanded:

The phrase "filial piety is the first of all good deeds" comes from the Qing Dynasty article "Night Talks Around the Furnace". Because it is the fundamental truth, the fundamental human ethics, the fundamental **** knowledge, so thousands of words of the "Furnace Night Talks", but can not withstand the reputation of this sentence "hundred good filial piety first".

The word "filial piety" is written with "son" below and "old" above, so "Shuowen" says "filial piety" as "good parents". The old man is at the top and the son is at the bottom. This is the order of seniority and inferiority, the etiquette. It can also be seen as the son bearing the old and the son carrying the old parents, which is a pictorial and even more intuitive act of filial piety.

Because the family and the country are the same, the king and the father are the same, the king is the father of the world, the practice of filial piety is the practice of loyalty to the king's way, as the saying goes: "filial piety, so serve the king also". Small filial piety is to honor and obey parents, parents to establish a way of life if you do not listen to that is unfilial; filial piety is loyal to the master, for the master's personal will to formulate guidelines and policies and political institutions if there is a rebellion that is "disloyal".

The ruler of the "disloyalty" is a major crime of extermination, the nine clans, the body hair and skin of the parents, the destruction is unfilial, not to mention their own head to the ground, and parents, brothers, wives and children to *** to the Yellow Springs, the biggest unfilial, so that the "filial piety

The scope of "filial piety" is bigger than loyalty, not only for parents.

More importantly, it is the loyalty of the king and the father, so it can be seen that "loyalty", "filial piety" is a unity and not a contradiction, for the interests of the king and the father to serve is the same point of its ****. "Filial piety" is thus accomplished from the human feelings to achieve its political purpose of clamping down on the people's thoughts and behavior.

Baidu Encyclopedia - The Hundred Virtues of Filial Piety