The concept of filial piety comes from the "Preface to Mao's Poems".
"Educating husband and wife, forming filial piety, respecting human relations, educating people with beauty, and changing customs" comes from the preface of "Preface to Mao's Poems", which means: regulating the relationship between husband and wife, prompting people to respect their elders, and making interpersonal relationships mellow. There is no more effective way to educate people to become virtuous and change their customs than through poetry.
"Preface to Mao's Poems" is a theoretical work on ancient Chinese poetry. In the Han Dynasty, there were four schools of Qi, Lu, Han and Mao who taught the Book of Songs. The poems passed down by Mao Chang from Zhao were called "Mao Shi". Each of the 305 chapters of "Mao's Poems" has a small preface. The first of them, "Zhou Nan·Guan Ju", has a longer text after the small preface, which is later known as "Mao's Poems Preface" or "Mao's Poems Preface". .
There have always been different opinions about its author, among which there are two theories with greater influence: one is that it was written by Zixia, a disciple of Confucius, and the other is that it was written by Wei Hong, a Han Chinese. It is generally believed that the writing of "Preface to Mao's Poems" continued from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty and was not completed by one person and at one time. ?
"Preface to Mao's Poems" summarizes the theoretical issues of "The Book of Songs", involving the nature, content, genre classification, artistic expression techniques, social role, etc. of poetry. His poetic views mainly include: first, expounding the characteristics of poetry expressing emotions and expressing emotions, poetry is both emotional and emotional, and the two are unified; second, emphasizing the social functions of poetry's "beautiful stimulation" and "satire", and then puts forward the idea that poetry personality and social issues.
3. Emphasis on the relationship between poetry, politics and the times, explaining that different eras have different works, revealing the principles that politics, morality, customs and poetry creation are closely related; 4. Regarding the classification and expression of poetry The "six meanings" theory of technique is proposed, among which Feng, Ya and Song are three poetic styles, and Fu, Bi and Xing are three techniques. ?
"Preface to Mao's Poems" occupies an important position in the history of Chinese literary criticism. Poetry emphasizes that writing poetry is not only about one's own poverty, but also about the world's decline and happiness. "Preface to Mao's Poems" is the origin of this idea. Fu, Bi, and Xing are the basic techniques and features of Chinese literature. In later poetry creation, the connotations of these three writing methods continued to develop and change, becoming important concepts in the history of poetry.
"Preface to Mao's Poems" inherits Confucius' thoughts of "thinking without evil" and "seeing the resentment of the masses", and makes a systematic summary of the pre-Qin Confucian poetic theory, which has a significant and far-reaching influence on later generations. Influence.