What is the idea of filial piety?

Filial piety is a kind of good deeds and virtues that children owe to their parents, and it is a moral quality that the younger generation in a family should have and a code of conduct that must be observed when dealing with their elders. Chinese traditional filial piety culture is a composite concept, rich in content and wide-ranging. There are both cultural concepts and institutional etiquette. Analyzed in terms of respect and upbringing, it mainly contains the following aspects, which we can summarize in twelve words, namely: respecting relatives, providing support, attending to illnesses, standing up for one's self, advising and admonishing, and having a good end.

Filial piety is the basic element of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. The culture of filial piety in China includes honoring parents, giving birth to offspring, pushing kindness to others, loyalty and filial piety, and remembering ancestors, etc. It is a multicultural system that extends and climbs from the individual to the whole, cultivating one's self, aligning the family, ruling the country, and calming the world.

Historical role of filial piety culture

1, cultivate the body and nourish the character. Individually, filial piety is the foundation for cultivating one's character. By practicing filial piety, each person's morality can be perfected. Otherwise, if one loses filial piety, one loses the minimum virtue of being a human being. Therefore, Confucianism has always been based on the cultivation of the body. Today, it is still of great practical significance to advocate filial piety and use it as an important element in cultivating the moral cultivation of the next generation.

2. Integrating the family. From the family, the practice of filial piety, can be the order of elders and children, standardize the order of human relationships, and promote family harmony. The family is the cell of society; if the family is stable, society is stable; if the family is unstable, society is unstable. Therefore, Confucianism attaches great importance to the role of the family and emphasizes the use of filial piety to regulate the family. In the new era, it is emphasized that it is equally important for children to respect and support their elderly parents.

3. Serving the country and honoring one's work. Filial piety promotes the idea of loyalty to the ruler and advocates serving the country with dedication. In the feudal era, the king and the state sometimes meant the same thing. Accordingly, Confucianism believes that the practice of filial piety, you must honor your parents at home, in the external affairs of the Secretary of State, up to the supreme ruler of the country. Although it has the dregs of foolish loyalty to the ruler of the country, the idea of serving the country and patriotism and dedication embedded in it is positive and progressive.