The Sentence of "Filial Piety to Parents" in The Analects of Confucius and Its Translation

In the Analects of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period, the sentence about "filial piety to parents" is: Confucius said: "Sex is difficult. If something happens, the disciple will handle it; There is wine and food, sir. Have you ever thought that this is filial piety? "

Interpretation of vernacular: Confucius said: "The hardest thing is to be kind to parents. Only when children do something for their parents can they consider this filial piety? "

The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucianism and a collection of recorded essays, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples in the form of quotations and dialogues, and embodies Confucius' political, aesthetic, moral and utilitarian values.

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The thought of The Analects of Confucius mainly has three independent and closely related categories:

Ethical category-benevolence, social and political category-propriety, cognitive methodology category-golden mean. Benevolence, first of all, is the true state in people's hearts. The final compromise must be kindness, and this true and kind state is "benevolence".

Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded that courtesy is a reasonable social relationship and a norm to treat people and things, and then expounded the methodological principle of the "golden mean" system. "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects. ?

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