China has always been a patriarchal society with strong clan power. In order to strengthen centralization and maintain political rule, the rulers of China have chosen "filial piety" as their mainstream values, thus making the implicit use of emotions an important policy. Therefore, emperors of all dynasties advocated "ruling the world with filial piety".
Why does filial piety rank first among all virtues?
Confucian culture believes that filial piety is the basis of morality, from which all enlightenment originates. Therefore, different from western culture, the rulers in the history of the East have beautified "filial piety" as the foundation of the country and publicized it as the first lesson to tame the people. It has trained generations of slaves who are obedient and loyal to "parents", and even served as the standard for selecting leading cadres (filial piety).
In fact, obeying parents is not necessarily related to being an official engaged in administrative management. Learning obedience and filial piety has also become the foundation of China's filial son. Because unfilial is possible to commit a crime, "five punishments are three thousand, and the crime is greater than unfilial." On the contrary, parents' domestic violence against their children is called "family law" under the cloak of "filial piety".
Will not be punished by the official criminal law! Only when there is filial piety in the family can there be loyalty in the society. However, no master in China told you to be loyal to yourself and to the social resource allocation system arranged by him.