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Filial piety is the first of all virtues. Why are there so many unfilial sons now? What does traditional filial piety lack?

Family daily life is full of mutual help, attachment and other emotional colors. Filial piety is the embodiment of emotional interaction and mutual help between family members, and social life is also inseparable from emotional communication and comfort. Filial piety comes from the most basic and natural blood relationship of human beings, and is also the result of biological evolution and social culture. Therefore, the cultivation of emotion and behavior should start from the family. China has entered an aging society, and family pension still occupies an important position, but the current national strength and national conditions of China are not enough to support social pension. Filial piety has been changing with the development of society since its birth, and people's understanding of filial piety in real life is full of confusion. The purpose of studying filial piety is to tap the traditional spirit of filial piety and serve the elderly in modern society. China people yearn for the care and emotional comfort of traditional filial piety. The traditional filial piety spirit is consistent, and the filial piety spirit of loving and respecting the elderly makes the filial piety ethics fit with the family virtue spirit of the times. However, the hypocrisy of traditional filial piety and its oppression and destruction of human nature also shocked modern people. Therefore, to inherit the traditional filial piety culture, we should sort out the connotation of traditional filial piety and fully understand its dual role in modern society.