Why is filial piety the core value of China traditional culture?

Filial piety means that we are filial to our parents, which is our own responsibility. Don't compare with our brothers and sisters. It is their business for brothers and sisters to be filial to their parents. We should be good to ourselves and filial to our parents.

Filial piety and gratitude are the basic elements of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, and they are the basis for the formation of China people's moral quality. China's filial piety culture includes respecting adoptive parents, giving birth to offspring, being kind to others, being both loyal and filial, and remembering ancestors. It is a multi-cultural system of self-cultivation, family management and world peace.

The power of social civilization

Filial piety, in a narrow sense, is a kind parent; Broadly speaking, it is what Confucius said: "first kiss, then middle, then gentleman, and finally body." Gratitude, in a narrow sense, is gratitude to parents, in a broad sense, gratitude to nature, gratitude to society, gratitude to the motherland, and gratitude to all those who have helped themselves. Filial piety and gratitude are the basic elements of filial piety culture based on filial piety to parents.

Filial piety is the premise and foundation of gratitude, the intrinsic quality of human beings, belonging to the soul, and gratitude is the embodiment of filial piety, the external conduct of human beings and the form. Filial piety and gratitude are thought, attitude, culture, behavior, cultivation and civilization. Unfortunate is ungrateful. Ungrateful is unfilial. Filial piety is human nature, filial piety is fundamental and filial piety is the supreme virtue.

Thousands of years ago, Confucius wrote an immortal masterpiece, The Book of Filial Piety, which was praised as "making people noble" and "lasting forever". For thousands of years, it has been regarded as the golden rule, respected by emperors, generals and ordinary people, and produced great power of human civilization, becoming a unique filial piety culture in China.