From Li Lou, Mencius of the Warring States Period: "There are three kinds of unfilial, and nothing is great. Marry without telling, and there is no queen. A gentleman thinks he will tell. " .
It is the first kind of unfilial to blindly obey and see that parents are wrong without persuasion, so that they fall into injustice; Poor family and elderly parents, but not to be an official to support their parents, this is the second kind of unfilial; ; It is the third kind of unfilial to not marry and have children and cut off offspring.
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The earliest explanation of "no offspring" is "not fulfilling the responsibility of the younger generation", probably from Li Shouli's blog post published on June 65438+1October 2 1 day, 2007: Li Shouli's "Mencius" is new: "There are three unfilial sons, and no offspring is the greatest".
Blogging: It is not difficult to find that Mencius' original intention is not what we usually know. I think a more pertinent explanation should be: there are many manifestations of unfilial, but the most important thing is the endless generation of younger generations. By the way, my wife didn't tell her living parents and didn't do her duty as a junior. However, the gentleman thinks that Shun has fulfilled the obligation of informing (because Shun took his wife and decided to marry his daughter after Yao inspected Shun's virtue, and at this time Shun's parents were biased and hostile to Shun, so it was inconvenient to inform him. Besides, Yao, as the emperor, is the parents of everyone in the world and can completely replace Shun's parents. "
In the following years, Li Shouli's views were relayed by some newspaper articles, but the source of his views was not mentioned. Later, Mo Fei, a well-known host of Jiangsu Satellite TV's famous program "If You Are the One", also relayed it (without mentioning the source of the viewpoint), which triggered an online discussion.