Loyalty In The Legend Of Fong Sai-Yuk

Part Three The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk: Group rescue members

3.1 Loyalty and Filial as the Narrative Motif

"Loyalty" in China traditional culture means the absolute constraint of the individual life as collective members. "Filial piety" implies that the individual life as a member of the family will keep the statute. Like The Old Saying: Being loyalty to the nation, filial piety to the family. The former means that Absolute loyalty to the monarch and the later means that unconditional obedience to his father. Therefore, both of them have the crowning position in traditional Chinese ethical culture. Loyalty and filial piety has gone from strong constraints on individual behavior to a spiritual contract and ethical concept that everyone should

Fong Sai-Yuk, the protagonist in the film The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk○7, is a man who regards nation and family as his responsibility. Because the concept of ethics has already become objective existence that grows earliest than the narrative theme, ethical text is the fundamental impetus of the unfolding of the narrative story when it intersects with narrative stories. In order to save his father, Fong Sai-Yuk fights with turnkeys. But no matter how hard he tries, he would never succeed. Finally, his father is saved. In The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, arrangement of narrative structure and storyline explain the meaning of filial piety and loyalty which promote the formation of the climax in the film and reach a consistent recognition of Fong Sai-Yuk with the audience. The ingrained ethical spirit of Chinese is that being filial piety and loyalty and respecting the teacher. This is the soul of Chinese martial arts film, and also of Chinese Chivalrous

The active and progressive philosophy which is advocated by Confucianism is a kind of ethical thought with "family is the core". Family is country, country means family. Country as a global concept is conceptual aggregation of family in traditional concept. There is no doubt that even in the disintegration of traditional thinking in today’s society, the moral idea “family is country” still has a strong vitality under the background of being obedience to the father and loyal to the monarch is undoubted moral standards and psychological compliance from generation to generation. Although the narrative techniques and features about Chinese martial arts film have been changed tremendously in its historical evolution from the bud to grow, the moral idea which makes up the ethical foundation and cultural spirit of Chinese martial arts movies is never changed, and it has become a kind of cultural value system which is widely recognized by the television