What positive and negative influences did China's ancient filial piety have on society and family in history?

1. cultivate one's morality. Personally, filial piety is the basis of self-cultivation By practicing filial piety, everyone's morality can be improved. Otherwise, without filial piety, the minimum virtue of being a man will be lost. Therefore, Confucianism has always been self-cultivation. Today, it is still of great practical significance to advocate filial piety as an important content of cultivating the next generation's moral cultivation.

2. Integrate the family. From the family point of view, filial piety can guide orderly growth, standardize interpersonal relationships and promote family harmony. Family is the cell of society, family stability leads to social stability, and family instability leads to social instability. 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 equally important to emphasize children's respect and support for their elderly parents.

3. Dedication to the country. Filial piety advocates loyalty to the monarch and loyalty to the country. In feudal times, monarch and state-owned time meant the same thing. According to this, Confucianism believes that filial piety must respect parents at home and achieve the supreme monarch in diplomacy. Although there are dross of loyalty to the monarch, the thought of serving the country and patriotic dedication contained in it are positive and progressive.

4. Social cohesion. Confucianism came into being in troubled times. The idea of filial piety can standardize social behavior, establish some etiquette systems and adjust interpersonal relationships, so as to achieve social cohesion, unify the world and control chaos. Objectively speaking, filial piety provided the feudal society with an ideological system to maintain social stability and played a positive role in the unification of China.

5. Shaping culture. The Chinese national culture is profound and profound, which originated from the contention of a hundred schools of thought, and has gone through the gains and losses of past dynasties. However, for thousands of years, the thought and tradition of filial piety have always dominated the development direction of Chinese national culture. The fundamental reason why Chinese national culture can assimilate countless foreign cultures lies in filial piety culture. The reason why the Chinese national culture has been enduring and become the only ancient civilization in the ancient world that has continued to this day is also the filial piety culture.

negative impact

1, ignorance. The filial piety culture in China's history emphasizes the idea of "Three Cardinal Principles and Five Permanent Principles" and aims at carrying out the policy of ignorance. Confucius also said: "People can make it happen, but they can't make it known." It was under the cover of filial piety that rulers of past dynasties implemented feudal ignorance policies and served their feudal rule with the cloak of filial piety.

2. Inequality. The relationship between "monarch, minister and son" in Confucian filial piety thought and the hierarchical concept in "ritual system" permeate the inequality between people. This relationship between interests and inequality is manifested in one-way obedience from superiors to subordinates. Although there is also the idea of respecting the old and loving the young, the long ones are always above and the young ones are always below. Whether it is family life, political life or social life, it is full of values that stifle equality.

3. Feudalism. Confucianism and ideology are essentially ideological systems serving the feudal ruling class, and have become the ideology of the feudal dynasty in China for thousands of years. In the process of the rise of the feudal class, it was progressive compared with slavery. However, when capitalism began to sprout and the feudal class was in a downward trend, Confucianism almost became the last refuge of the feudal class.