Filial Piety in The Analects of Confucius
? The mother used the needle and thread in her hand to make clothes for her long-distance son. Before leaving, I had a stitch for fear that my son would come back late and his clothes would be damaged. Who can say that a filial child like the weak can repay his mother's love like the sunshine in spring? ? Concise chanting is undoubtedly a meticulous description, as if I could catch a glimpse of a kind mother mending clothes for a child who is about to travel far away in the dead of night and under the flickering candlelight.
Pioneer poet forefinger wrote "This is Beijing at 4: 08" against the background of educated youth going to the countryside, in which he wrote: My heart suddenly hurts, and the needle and thread pulled by my mother must have penetrated my heart.
Affection is the most difficult feeling to give up in the world, and people will think of their mothers when they move towards a broad road ahead.
China people like to call the Yellow River, the birthplace of Chinese civilization, the Mother River, and the school that trains and educates its own adults the Alma Mater. The motherland is called the motherland in English.
It can be seen that everyone, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, is full of gratitude and attachment to the maternal love of boxing.
The Chinese nation is famous for its long filial piety culture. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Analects of Confucius made a systematic and comprehensive exposition of filial piety.
Confucius said:? Disciples are filial, and younger brothers are younger. They are sincere and trustworthy, love the public and are kind.
Learn literature if you have spare time. ? In The Analects of Confucius? In Xueer, filial piety is an excellent character juxtaposed with honesty, fraternity and kindness, and is ranked first. This is also the basic principle of being a man. Studying literature? One of the important foundations.
If you don't know how to be grateful to your parents, you can't be omnipotent.
Emotional overdraft leads to the lack of life experience, and even if you barely study, you can't understand the emotions and thoughts of your ancestors.
Xia Zi, a student of Confucius, said? A gentleman can change color, his parents can devote themselves to it, and a gentleman can attract him, make friends and keep his word.
Although I haven't studied, I will call it learning. ? Do your best to serve your parents and think for the monarch, and you can be loyal. In the ethics of Jun Jun, ministers and fathers and sons, a monarch can become a loyal minister only when he is a father and a dutiful son.
Have a son: He is also filial to his younger brother, but few are good at committing crimes; It's not easy to make mistakes, but it's not easy to make mistakes.
Gentleman's business is based on inheritance and Taoism.
Filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence! ? If filial piety is promoted to a higher level, there are very few people who can honor their parents and respect their brothers but like to make mistakes.
A gentleman is committed to cultivating the spirit of filial piety, which is the foundation of benevolence and Taoism. Filial piety is not only the foundation of being a son and a minister, but also the cornerstone of pursuing the highest realm of benevolence.
When Confucius discussed his attitude towards his parents with his students, he thought that supporting his parents was generally regarded as filial piety in society at that time. However, supporting parents is something that all dogs and horses can do, so it is not enough to support parents only. If you don't respect them, then the son of man is no different from all the children of dogs and horses.
Parents are most worried about their children's health. Children should keep healthy and not let their parents worry, which is also filial piety to their parents. When parents are alive, children often accompany them to serve. Don't travel far. If you must travel far, you must have a certain direction and let your parents know your whereabouts. This is also a comfort to parents' concern.
However, high-spirited teenagers often yearn for a wandering life. In their early years, they ignored their parents' efforts to persuade them to stay away from their hometown. It is often too late to get dressed and go home, or the prodigal son comes back, which inevitably leads to the regret that his son has to support and his relatives are not there.
Children can't help thinking of their parents' age. On the one hand, they should celebrate their parents' birthdays. On the other hand, parents are getting older and older, and the days that are far away from us are getting closer and closer. As children, we should always feel sad, so that we can cherish the time when our parents are alive and serve them wholeheartedly.
In the practice of serving parents, Confucius thought it was difficult to serve parents with kindness.
Children do housework inside and outside the family, and parents can enjoy food first, but this should not be the only criterion of filial piety.
If you see what your parents have done wrong, you should gently persuade them many times. If your parents don't adopt their own opinions, you should still respect them. Although you are worried, you still don't resent your parents.
Serve parents, bury parents, and offer sacrifices to parents? A gift? Rules.
One of Confucius' students killed me and thought it was too long to mourn for my parents for three years. Confucius said he was heartless. After the child is born, it will take three years in the mother's arms to walk freely. Three years of mourning for his parents is to repay their hard work when their children can't walk, but I can't even do that.
? Father was there, watching his ambition; Father didn't, observe his actions; Three years without changing your father's ways can be described as filial piety. ? Observe his ambition when his father is alive and his behavior when his father dies.
If he does not change his father's principles for a long time, it can be said that he is filial.
Emphasizing the practical action of filial piety, filial piety is not only a ceremony, a funeral and a sacrificial ceremony. It is not enough to work hard, live a considerate life and miss them often. We should strive to realize our parents' ideals and inherit and carry forward their advantages.
Children are the continuation of parents' lives. As a dutiful son, we should let the spirit of parents continue on ourselves.
The poet said that mother is a pearl clam, and she suffered a lot because she cultivated a hard stone.
She did not refuse to raise it, but wrapped it layer by layer with her thick and generous maternal love until it became a bright, round and flawless pearl.
Mr. Yu Guangzhong, a famous poet and essayist in Taiwan Province, wrote on Mother's Day: After you left, the world has changed beyond recognition, and the only constant is my eternal gratitude to you.
The filial piety advocated by Confucius is a national creed that has been respected by Chinese descendants for thousands of years, and it will also become the moral standard for future generations of Qian Qian.
The simplicity and warmth of The Analects of Confucius lies in that it not only has the ambition of the world, but more importantly, it will never lose its simple starting point.
Filial piety is such a simple starting point.
Today, we have moved away from the patriarchal society that produces filial piety.
In modern society, the relationship between father and son no longer corresponds to the relationship between monarch and minister. So, can I say? Filial piety? Out of date? Is it in today's society where everyone is equal and the law is just? Filial piety? Isn't being a man fundamental? We have a copy of The Analects of Confucius in our hands. We say it is simple and warm, so where is its simple and warm?
The simplicity and warmth of The Analects of Confucius lies in that it not only has the ambition of the world, but more importantly, it will never lose its simple starting point.
In other words, The Analects tells us the truth of self-cultivation and also gives us the way to achieve our ideals.
Confucius and his students have many daily questions and answers.
One day, Yan Hui and Luz were chatting with their teacher.
The teacher said: Each of you can talk about your ambition. ?
Lutz said:? My ambition is to enjoy good things like clothes, cars and horses with my friends, and wear them without complaining. This is my wish. ?
Yan Hui said? My wish is that a person should not always brag about himself, nor should he always preach his own advantages. Modesty is enough. ?
At this time, the students found that the teacher had not spoken yet.
Lutz said to the teacher. I hope to hear your ambition from the teacher. ? Confucius made a simple description of his personality ideal, just three sentences: Old people are safe, and friends believe that few people are pregnant. ? ("The Analects? Gong Yechang ")
Confucius' ambition is to let the old man settle down, let his friends trust him and let the young people miss him.
Think about it, everyone in this world can't get rid of the relationship with three kinds of people, that is, our elders? My parents, our peers? Friends for life, our junior? Your own child.
Confucius won't talk about how I want to build my country and country, and how many meritorious deeds I have made. Instead, he said, all my old people can settle down, my friends can trust and entrust me, and the children can think I deserve admiration and nostalgia. If my existence can make these three people have such' various sustenance' in their hearts, it will be enough.
What's the first thing in this? Old man An Zhi? .
We are all saying that the Chinese nation has a virtue called filial piety, but do we know what true filial piety is? One? Ann? Is handwriting easy to do? Maybe every child has his own way to make the elderly feel safe from the outside and from the inside, but it is not easy to do it well.
There is a folk proverb in China called? Zhu Dexiao first? .
All good deeds begin with filial piety, because this is the deepest affection in life, and everyone can't avoid it.
In the matter of filial piety, there is another folk saying, called? Take it to heart, regardless of the trace? .
We know that not every dutiful son has enough money and high status to turn love into material conditions for his parents according to his dreams.
Sometimes a deep wish is just a simple thing, so small.
Maybe we can have various standards for the elderly to settle down, such as how big a house to buy, what kind of car to buy, where to take the elderly to travel, what kind of clothes to wear and what kind of diet to eat, but can these really reassure the elderly?
Many students once asked Confucius what it was. Filial piety? .