Wei Jin Southern And Northern Dynasties Filial Piety Culture Research

The culture of filial piety is an important part of ancient Chinese traditionalculture. It occupies an important position since being originated during thedevelopment of China’s cultural history. Especially after being flourished by theConfucian culture, filial piety, being closely linked to Confucian family regulation,country and thinking, has been an important means for the rulers.Southern and Northern Dynasties occupied a unique historical position in thehistory of the development of China’s ancient culture of filial piety. The rulers of thisperiod implemented Filial Piety through a variety of measures to carry out their rules.In political, the emperors can set an example to attend filial piety and educate theworld; filial ideology has penetrated into the political system, and become theselection standards of officials; legal provisions gradually melt into the filial pietyThought, and severely punished the unfilial crime. In social life, supporting parentshas become the most basic requirements of the sons and daughters. Mourning forparents also has distinctive characteristics of the times. There were the phenomena ofthe loss of lives for mourning which showed the great influence of the culture of filialpiety. In culture and education, the status of Book of Filial Piety rose. The officialrepaired history books opened a history of writing bibliographies for dutiful sons, anda large number of passages for advice of filial piety enriched culture of filial piety.Compared with dynasties in the past, the filial piety culture of Wei, Jin, Southernand Northern Dynasties has typical characteristics. This thesis attempts to use thecombination of the summary and history, make analysis of the pros and cons of theWei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties experience, and learn from the rationalcomponent, to provide useful inspiration for harmonious social construction.