Do you agree with the following statement if kowtowing is filial piety? Old people are kowtowed to their children for New Year's greetings, and they can't ask their children to do anything else.
Because kowtowing is filial piety, children are filial piety, and filial piety is commendable, and the elderly have also been filial. What else can we do?
The traditional virtue of the Chinese nation is to respect the old and love the young, just kowtow and do other things by yourself.
If it were me, I wouldn't do it. I can't do it correctly.
If my parents need me to take care of them, I am prepared to take care of them seriously and try my best not to kowtow to the New Year.
If you don't teach, your father is guilty; If teaching is not strict, teachers will degenerate. When the child is at fault, the father bears 80% and the child bears 20% of the responsibility.
Kowtowing during the New Year is not an excellent traditional culture, but a typical feudal dross. This is to oppress people with tradition, not etiquette, but to judge ugliness and endure humiliation. Just like the development of modern history, ignorant traditional culture is dross.
There is a serious lack of personality belief, and kowtowing in New Year's greetings is totally meaningless as etiquette. As a way of greeting the New Year, kowtowing also spread from the court to the people from the corrupt Qing court, and was imitated as fashion worship.
In modern civilized society, we should get rid of those secular festivals. Those feudal dross are no longer passed down as traditional culture. Don't kowtow to your elders, wine and meat cross the intestines, and the Buddha pays attention. You don't have to bow to such shameful behavior.
Worship is a etiquette used to establish a hierarchy. Under the ruling class and feudal patriarchal system, it is an insult to people to respect and protect in an orderly manner.
Looking back at history, whether bowing to officials or clan elders, it is essentially a abandonment of self-dignity and a surrender to the current personality status gap.
Kowtowing in New Year's greetings is the most insulting behavior, and it is the restoration of decadent culture under the banner of excellent traditional culture. We should get rid of the dross of rice, take its essence, and abandon the etiquette of "kowtowing to celebrate the New Year".
The above is just a personal opinion.