Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional virtues - What's your understanding of filial piety?

What's your understanding of filial piety?

It can be summed up in twelve words, namely: respecting relatives, supporting, caring for diseases, establishing, advising and dying well.

Personally, filial piety is the basis of self-cultivation By practicing filial piety, everyone's morality can be improved. Otherwise, if you lose filial piety, you will lose the minimum virtue of being a man. 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.

meaning

There are three kinds of true feelings in the world: affection, friendship and love. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for family, friendship and love to lack recognition. In particular, the problems caused by the phenomenon of unfilial ingratitude in family relations have constituted social problems and affected the process and quality of interpersonal harmony, family harmony and social harmony construction.

Filial piety and gratitude are the foundation of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, the basic elements of the construction of political morality, social morality, professional morality, family virtue and personal morality, and the spiritual pillar and strength that cannot be ignored in today's political civilization, economic civilization and spiritual civilization. Therefore, a scientific and modern interpretation of our filial piety culture is of great benefit to the current civic education.