1, Confucius on filial piety, emphasizing respect for adoptive parents. Being a parent is to support parents and ensure their material needs, wh
1, Confucius on filial piety, emphasizing respect for adoptive parents. Being a parent is to support parents and ensure their material needs, which is one of the basic contents of Confucius' filial piety and the most basic meaning of traditional filial piety. Parents have worked hard to raise their children. When children grow up, they will not forget the grace of raising, and do their best to support and take care of their parents, ensure their material needs, and enable them to spend their old age safely.
Of course, it's not enough to just do these things. Therefore, Confucius said: "Today's filial piety can be raised. As for dogs and horses, you can keep them or not. Why not? " It is important to ensure that parents have enough to eat and wear, and have no worries about hunger and cold, but this is something that even dogs and horses can do. If you don't love your parents, you just feed them and simply give them food and drink. What's the difference between this and dogs and horses?
Therefore, nurturing and respecting relatives are two complementary aspects, which are indispensable. Filial piety refers not only to the material support for parents, but also to the inner natural and conscious will, focusing on the inner sincere respect. Adapted to this point, we should be kind and respectful to our parents in appearance, which is the embodiment of children's love for their parents and the first essence of filial piety.
Confucius believes that children should not only respect their adoptive parents, but also care and warm their parents. They should also greet their parents, stay with them and share their worries. This is a concrete aspect of their sincerity towards life. Confucius said, "If you don't travel far, you will travel well." Parents are around, you can't travel casually, you can't wait on your parents. If you travel far and wander, you will worry your parents, and the dutiful son will not let them do so.
Filial piety is manifested in "not traveling far" and "walking well", so that you can stay with your parents and always care, comfort and warm them. Missing means that when you are not around your parents, you should always remember and care about them, that is, be filial to them. Confucius said several things about filial piety. "Meng asked filial piety. Confucius said,' Parents only worry about their illness.' "
6. There are two explanations for this sentence, but they are almost the same: one is worrying about parents getting sick, and the other is worrying about parents; First, parents are worried because they are sick, so as children, they should pay attention to their health and not increase their parents' worries. "In the year of parents, you must know. One is happy and the other is afraid. " Children should not only be respectful to their parents, but also worry about their age and illness, remember their age and birthday and care about their health. On the one hand, they are happy for their health and longevity, on the other hand, they are worried about their aging and diseases. Therefore, we should always remember and care for our parents, which is human nature and the inherent requirement of filial piety.