Filial piety is the basic element of China's traditional virtue. 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 Historical Function of Filial Piety Culture
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, 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.
2. Integrate the family. From the family point of view, the implementation of filial piety can lead to 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. Serve the country and be dedicated. Filial piety advocates loyalty to the country. In feudal times, monarch and state-owned time meant the same thing. According to this, Confucianism believes that filial piety should be practiced, parents should be respected at home, and the supreme monarch should be achieved in foreign affairs. 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.