Filial piety is one of the two basic traditional moral codes of conduct of the Chinese nation, and the other is loyalty. For thousands of years, people have regarded loyalty and filial piety as nature, and even as a sign to distinguish people from animals. Loyalty and filial piety were put forward by saints, not saints. It is the historical product of long-term social practice in ancient China.
2. Since Qin and Han Dynasties, China has established a big country with multi-ethnic unity, and there are two guarantees for its construction and maintenance. First, we must ensure the effective rule of a highly centralized power; Second, individual farmers living at the grass-roots level should be able to live and work in peace and contentment and engage in production.
Highly centralized political power and extremely dispersed farmers should cooperate with each other to reduce opposition. Under the unified coordination of the whole country, they can carry out large-scale cross-regional industrial construction and cultural construction, prevent civil war, resist foreign invasion, and provide disaster relief and disease prevention. If individual farmers benefit from it, the world will be peaceful.
3. Agricultural production is a reasonable choice made by China ancient society according to the natural environment. Family is the basic production organization of one household in ancient China, which constitutes the basic cell of society.
Families produced by small farmers have the obligation to pay taxes to the state, and the state has the responsibility to protect small farmers. If the relationship between "country" and "home" is well coordinated, the world will be governed, and vice versa. The highest principle to ensure the effective rule of the country and the monarch is "loyalty"; The highest principle of filial piety is "filial piety", and the most basic cell in ancient China society is family. Therefore, compared with loyalty and filial piety, filial piety is more basic than loyalty.
4. The Classic of Filial Piety in the Thirteen Classics takes filial piety as the highest principle of course. Later, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Zai wrote Mingxi, which integrated loyalty and filial piety on the basis of the Classic of Filial Piety and formed a complete filial piety system from the perspective of philosophical ontology. It has played a positive role in the development of the Chinese nation, enhanced national cohesion and formed a * * * understanding of national values.