Study Of Tang Dynasty Culture Of Filial Piety

As an important part of traditional culture, filial piety is considered the attribute of traditional Chinese culture. Tang Dynasty is an important stage of cultural development of filial piety, in which filial culture has very rich and obvious characteristics of the times. Starting from the social conditions of the Tang Dynasty, a round and multi-cultural perspective to the study of Tang Dynasty filial piety culture helps to deepen understanding of Chinese traditional culture of filial piety, which is good for deepening the research of social history of the Tang Dynasty. It also has certain significance for solving the current social morals flaw, family conflicts, intergenerational tensions and other social problems.Based on previous studies, using multidisciplinary approach, this paper studied Tang Dynasty's culture of filial piety systematically studied. Focusing on the culture of Tang Dynasty, the paper discussed the reason of filial piety developed well in Tang Dynasty, the essential feature of filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty, and the relationship between filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty and politics, economy, culture and social life. The full text altogether divides into eight parts, and the main points of each part are as follows:Chapter one is a review of academic history. In recent centuries, scholars at home and abroad have conducted researches to filial piety of Tang Dynasty and related issues, and have delivered some achievements. The researches studied Tang Dynasty's filial piety, or governing with filial piety of Tang Dynasty, or the relationship between loyalty and filial piety of Tang Dynasty. Many of them have some inspiration. But overall, the results of the small number of studies focused on different. There are also quite different understandings of filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty. It is necessary to increase the intensity of study on filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty.Chapter two discusses the origin of filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty. It may be traced back to pre-Qin era. "Respect for the ancestor" of Western Zhou Dynasty namely had the strong filial piety culture. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, Confucianism represented by Confucius established the whole set of filial piety culture theory. In Han Dynasty, "governing world by the filial piety" was carried out, which made the filial piety politicization and the theology. In Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, viewpoints of "filial piety is more important than loyalty to the king" and "filial piety is more important when parents are alive than doing lots of things after their death" were formed. All these have become the basis for the development of filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty.Chapter three specifically researches relationship between filial piety culture and politics of Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty inherited the "governing world by the filial piety" and introduced filial piety into its cultural and educational institutions. In every aspect of political life, the role of filial piety was advocated. In Tang Dynasty, filial piety could be found in education system, the election officer personnel system, praise piety policy, the policy providing for the aged, ceremonial system and legal system. All of these explained that the filial piety culture has the formidable influence in Tang Dynasty political life.Chapter four studies relationship between filial piety culture and Tang Dynasty's economy. In the Tang Dynasty, filial piety culture had not only safeguarded the unity of farmer families and society's stability, moreover it played the positive role in the promotion of agricultural technology's dissemination. Looking from Tang Dynasty carrying out filial piety practice's economic policy, the filial piety culture and Tang Dynasty family asset's management, as well as the relationship between filial piety culture and the Tang Dynasty finance, filial piety culture and Tang Dynasty economic relationships were connected very close. This kind of relation was advantageous to the development of filial piety culture, but to the social economy it is a double-edged sword, because excessive expenditures on sacrificial offering and funeral could bring the heavy burden to the development of the social economy.Chapter five researches relationship between filial piety culture and Tang Dynasty culture. As the ideology, filial piety culture seeps into each domain of Tang Dynasty culture life. The material demonstrates that filial piety culture is related to religion, literature, history, art (including music, dance, drawing, sculpture, building, calligraphy and so on) and medicine of Tang Dynasty. Filial piety culture promoted the development of each culture factor of Tang Dynasty, and the innovation of each cultural element in turn enriched filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty.Chapter six studies relationship between filial piety culture and the society of Tang Dynasty. In Tang Dynasty, filial piety culture penetrated into every aspects of people's social life, and had certain influence to people's basic necessities of life, family life, holiday customs as well as the social convention. Under the influence of filial piety culture, Tang Dynasty society presented many fashion reflecting filial piety culture. Emphasis on elaborate funerals and genealogy and row is a manifestation of this fashion.Chapter seven studies the filial duty of Tang Dynasty and the attribute of Tang Dynasty's filial piety culture. The people of Tang Dynasty followed the basic meaning of Confucian ethics of filial piety, but different social stratums hold different understanding to the filial piety. To maintain the rule, the king of Tang Dynasty requested the bureaucrat and the ordinary populace achieve the loyalty and filial piety uniformity. Scholar-officials stressed that cannot have both the loyalty and filial piety, and the ordinary populace did take "treat parents well" as the good filial piety criterion. Filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty has the characteristic of succession, innovation, openness, tolerance, gradualness and the regional. The formation of these characteristics has many kinds of reasons, but generally are decided by Tang Dynasty's society historic condition.Chapter eight discusses the status and the influence of filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty. Filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty is the representative of filial piety culture of Chinese medieval times. It had profound and comprehensive impact on Tang Dynasty society. This kind of influence is mainly for guide on Chinese moral and culture, politics practice and social life instruction, as well as the maintenance of Tang Dynasty social order. It is noteworthy that filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty also had the profound influence to surrounding countries such as Silla and Japan. Afterward, filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty was inherited by Song Dynasty and became the foundation of filial piety culture of Song Dynasty and the later dynasties. In this sense, filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty played a role of linking the preceding with the following in the development of Chinese tradition filial piety culture.From the cultural point of view, the article conducted the more comprehensive research on filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty for the fest time, particularly summarized characteristics of Tang Dynasty's filial piety culture, analyzed the social and historical reasons which it formed, discussed the relationship between filial piety culture and Tang Dynasty's politics, economy, culture and social life, and carried on the analysis to its status and the influence, thus made the new endeavor to deepened research on filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty. For research methodology, the article discussed filial piety culture from politics, economy, culture and social life and so on, and selected one era to carry on the concrete study, which developed a new vision of filial piety culture research. In brief, the article conducted comprehensive research on filial piety culture of Tang Dynasty and proposed some opinions for experts, scholars and relevant parties.