Filial Piety In Ancient China Research Paper

Confucius’ belief has huge impacts on the relationship in a family and adds complicity to the relationship in Qing dynasty. The distance between family members play an important role of challenging filial piety. Confucianism focuses on the the parallel conception of society. As part of the parallel conception, the relationship between parents and children is constantly emphasized. In addition, Confucius’s idea was widely spread and accepted by the public. Thus, children were taught the main idea of Confucius since they were young. For example, Liu had learned the importance of filial piety from the texts he had studied for the state examinations, beginning with the first book he memorized, The Classic of Filial Piety, which states bluntly that “filial piety is the root of all virtue and the source of all teachings (The Man Awakened from Dreams, p. 54).” In Qing dynasty, Confucianism is widely supported, not only by the

While the obedience of children to parents has been constantly emphasized by both the public and the government, seen as ritual, as custom, and as a tradition, there are still challenges being exposed to this ritual. Firstly, the distance between husband and wife in a family can lead to challenge the belief of filial piety. According to Confucius’ belief, parents are always more important than the wife. In the Family Sayings of Confucius, one of the reasons that a husband should divorce his wife is if the wife did not obey her husband’s parents (The Man Awakened from Dreams, p. 70). Thus, according to Confucius’ belief, the rule that the filial son should divorce his wife if she displeased his parents was quite explicit and found (The Man Awakened from Dreams, p. 70). However, in The Man Awakened from Dreams, it shows the relationship between husband and wife may challenge the filial piety as well. Liu occasionally though about the importance of loving one’s