Confucian explanation of filial piety

Filial piety is a requirement of heaven. Christianity Moses Ten Commandments this requirement is that people should be filial to their parents. So the human way must be filial, if not filial people can not cast.

Of course, it is necessary to theorize that filial piety arises from benevolence. Because of benevolence, filial piety. That's why in the past it was often said that compassion and filial piety, compassion and filial piety, that's the reason. Filial piety is also a virtue that produces very great blessings.

The five virtues of loyalty, filial piety, honesty and modesty come from righteousness, filial piety from benevolence, honesty from righteousness, and modesty from propriety. So benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, loyalty, filial piety, honesty, shame and modesty are of vital importance.

Filial piety and obedience to parents is our traditional virtue. From the Buddhist point of view, filial piety is the starting point for goodness. Old as we are, as well as people's old age, treat the world's elderly like their own parents, the world is really a good earth. Confucianism, on the other hand, explains traditional Chinese filial piety as consisting of the following aspects:

Confucianism's Explanation of Traditional Chinese Filial Piety

I. Spiritual Honoring and Loving Parents

The essence of traditional Chinese filial piety lies in the advocation of "honoring" and "loving" one's parents first and foremost. "Without respect and love, there is no filial piety. Confucius said: "Today's filial piety, is said to be able to raise. As for dogs and horses, all can be raised, do not respect, how to be different?" That is to say, the treatment of parents is not only material support, the key is to have love for parents, and this love is from the heart of the sincere love. Without this love, not only can we not talk about filial piety and honor to parents, but also with the breeding of dogs and horses is no different. At the same time, Confucius believed that the most difficult thing for children to fulfill filial piety is to maintain this "love" at all times, that is, to treat their parents happily.

Second, the material support of parents

The material basis of traditional Chinese filial piety is to provide for parents materially, i.e., to support them, "to be born is to be raised," which is the minimum program of filial piety and respect for parents. Confucianism advocates that parents should be the first to be provided for materially, and that the elderly must be the first to be allowed to eat whatever is good for them. This is very important, filial piety emphasizes the priority of elderly parents in material life.

Third, parents should be taken care of when their health is not good

The elderly are weak and prone to illness, so traditional Chinese filial piety puts an important element of "serving the sick". The traditional Chinese tradition of filial piety makes "serving the sick" an important element. When parents are sick, children should ask doctors to treat them and take good care of them, wait for their parents to eat and live, and give more care to their parents' life and spirit.

Four, career success can satisfy the parents' sense of achievement

The filial piety classic cloud: "to be safe, to be famous in the world, filial piety is also the end". That is to say, the children should "establish themselves" and achieve a career. Children's career achievements, parents will feel happy, feel honored, feel proud.

Fifth, after the death of parents to arrange for a good afterlife

Nursing the end of life is the obligation of the children. The filial piety scripture pointed out: "filial son of the relatives are also, living to its respect, raising to its joy, sick to its worry, mourning to its sadness, sacrifice to its strict, the five are ready, and then be able to serve the relatives".

Confucian filial piety puts a lot of emphasis on the funeral, in the funeral rites to do all kinds of rituals, for the parents of the aftermath is also a kind of filial piety.