With a little textual research, we can draw a conclusion that the goal of filial piety education in ancient times was to promote the concept of respecting the elderly from the family to the society. Through the combination of social education and social education, a social fashion of respecting the elderly was effectively created, and people were encouraged to "respect the elderly and love their parents and children", thus promoting the family. Bing Xin, a famous contemporary writer, is very concerned about children's filial piety education. She demanded that the education of children should not only be reasonable, but should first teach children how to care for and love their parents. Obviously, only by honoring parents can family harmony be achieved; Only family harmony can bring social stability; Only social stability can bring economic prosperity; Only economic prosperity can make the country rich and strong. Many examples prove that filial piety to parents is no small matter! Filial piety education is the most basic moral education. A child doesn't even care, take care of, respect or love his parents who raised him. How can he love others and the collective? If a child has no deep feelings for his biological parents, how can he sublimate noble patriotism? In this regard, many primary schools have carried out a series of traditional virtue education activities with the theme of "five hearts" education activities (loyalty to the motherland, love for society, care for others, filial piety to parents and self-confidence). Through a series of "Five Hearts" educational activities, they have cultivated students' lofty aspirations, patriotism, collectivism, socialism, social responsibility and spirit of serving the society. They put forward different moral education requirements according to the characteristics of students of different ages, and carried out the "filial piety medal" competition in different grades. This activity has aroused a good response in the society, and it is also a strong proof that the traditional filial piety culture can be carried forward under the new situation.
Thirdly, it is an important task to carry forward the filial piety culture and improve the basic moral quality of all citizens in contemporary society. From the reality of our country, filial piety is also the source of value to form a harmonious modern interpersonal relationship, and it can also be said to be one of the important factors to maintain social stability. Filial piety has always been the foundation of being a man, the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and the basic element of family harmony, social stability and national unity. Filial piety culture is an important part of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the emotional and moral basis of Chinese patriotism. Filial piety advocated by ancient Confucianism such as Confucius and Mencius is not only an ethics expressed through behavior, but also a social behavior. Filial piety is responsible for social morality and shoulders social responsibility. Judging from the demand and reality of socialist spiritual civilization construction in China, it is in the transition period from tradition to modernization. With the pace of reform and opening up, the contradiction between the old moral norms and the socialist market economy is increasingly colliding and running in. It is a moral choice for everyone in China to rebuild the modern moral and cultural system with China characteristics and to embody the ethical spirit of the times. The spirit of attaching importance to roots and joining WTO in traditional filial piety culture plays a cohesive role in strengthening the unity of all ethnic groups in China and Qi Xin's concerted efforts in socialist modernization. We should realize that this is the best starting point and starting point of civic moral education in contemporary society. Although in contemporary society, people seem to attach more importance to social roles and social morality than to the private morality of their own families, which has certain rationality, China regarded filial piety as the basis of all morality in ancient times, which is a deeper and more primitive concept and should not be transferred. Now some people, whose parents were not filial before their death, wait until the old man dies, but hold a funeral. Those powerful people even built graves around, were surrounded by motorcades, and held banquets for several days to show that they could "worship their ancestors". This is by no means filial piety, but to show one's "glory" through one's parents' tablets. This phenomenon is a distortion and blasphemy to the traditional filial piety culture! By criticizing this kind of "filial piety", the importance and social significance of promoting filial piety culture are also highlighted.
Fourthly, in today's aging population in China, advocating filial piety culture has far-reaching social and practical significance. At present, the elderly population in China has exceeded 65.438+0.3 billion, accounting for more than 654.38+0.654 38+0% of the total population. In particular, China's elderly population has a large base and a rapid momentum, which ushered in an aging population under the condition of "getting old before getting rich". According to relevant data, by 2025, the elderly population in China will reach 280 million, accounting for about 20% of the total population, and the elderly population over 80 will also reach 25 million. By then, the elderly over 60 in China will be equivalent to the total population of the United States, twice the total population of Japan, and the elderly over 80 will also exceed the total population of Australia. It can be seen that how to arrange and solve the problem of providing for hundreds of millions of elderly people will be one of the major strategic tasks of China in the 2 1 century. To this end, a little analysis will show the great significance of advocating and promoting filial piety culture in China.
The way of providing for the aged in China is mainly family support, which has been a traditional model for thousands of years. More than 70% of the elderly population in China still live in rural areas, and most of the elderly still have low living security ability. Most of them have to rely on the help of their families to spend their old age. They need not only material help, life care, but also spiritual comfort. Family support for the aged is a generally recognized model in China, and its ideological basis is the traditional concept of filial piety. Of course, we should also be soberly aware that with the development of reform and opening up, the function of family support for the elderly in China is weakening day by day, and the traditional concept of filial piety has begun to fade, and incidents of discrimination and abuse of the elderly have also occurred from time to time. In this case, it is of great practical significance to publicize the traditional filial piety culture and actively advocate the traditional virtues of respecting, respecting and helping the elderly. In this regard, the party and the state have recognized and taken positive measures. For example, 1996, China promulgated the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, which specifically stipulated the requirements of respecting the elderly and providing for the elderly in the form of law. In September, 20001year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China promulgated the Outline for the Implementation of Citizens' Morality, and put forward the basic moral norms of "patriotism and law-abiding, courtesy and honesty, unity and friendliness, diligence and self-improvement, and willingness to contribute", taking respecting the elderly and loving the young as the basic morality of every citizen. Recently, the report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also pointed out that "we should persist in carrying forward and cultivating the national spirit ... and earnestly strengthen ideological and moral construction". Therefore, under the new situation, carrying forward the traditional filial piety culture of the Chinese nation is also a concrete manifestation of implementing the strategic thought of "ruling the country by virtue" put forward by General Secretary Jiang. This will have far-reaching social and practical significance for promoting the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation and effectively solving the problem of population aging.