I am afraid of death and abandon my father.

Sun Yi said, will I abandon my father for fear of death? The original sentence was: "Your father was driven to the East, but the East Army killed all the people it captured, so you died if you were careful." He said, "Can I abandon my father for fear of death?" I went there, died in and out, and was in danger again and again. My father came back to me. This ancient prose is from the Confucian classic "The Book of Filial Piety".

Selected text translation

Someone told him, "your father was driven to the east, but the army in the east killed all the prisoners." Be careful not to die. " Sun Yi said, "Did I abandon my father because I was afraid of death?" So I went to a dangerous place, almost died several times, and finally brought my father back.

A Brief Introduction to the Book of Filial Piety

This book is the last words of seventy disciples of Confucius, written in Qin and Han Dynasties. From the Western Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were hundreds of commentators. At present, the more popular versions are Li Longji's Annotation of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty and Xing Bing's Annotation of Song Dynasty. The book is divided into 18 chapters.

The Significance of the Book of Filial Piety

In China's ethical thoughts, the Book of Filial Piety linked filial piety with loyalty to the monarch for the first time, arguing that loyalty to the monarch is the development and expansion of filial piety, and its social function is absolutely mysterious, and filial piety can be "spread to the gods, spread all over the world, and pervasive".