The Study Of Zengzi’s Conception Of Filial Piety And Its Modern Sense

The foundation of Chinese Confucian culture is the traditional Confucian filialpiety. It is an important part of Chinese traditional culture. Confucian filial pietythought profoundly affects the Chinese civilization, has a far-reaching influence onthe Chinese nation. In recent times，Chinese traditional culture has received a severeshock of western culture and experienced a lot of change.However,the concept offilial piety is still recognized by Chinese people all over the world,and filial piety hasbecome one of the important features peculiar to Chinese civilization in comparisonwith other civilizations.As descendants of Confucian orthodoxy authentic, Zengzi Confucius inheritedand developed the concept of filial piety. More valuable is he to practice filial piety, isa model of ancient filial son, eventually became the ancestor of filial rule sent, is thephilosophy of the pre-qin period of filial piety. Zengzi raised the basic connotation offilial piety, which has been pushed to the height of the philosophical ontology.Hisview not only deeply affects the two thousand years of Chinese feudal society, butalso in today’s society still has very high use value.This paper on Zengzi’s conception of filial piety is mainly composed of fourparts:The first part of this paper simply discusses the connotation and origin of filialpiety. This part firstly discusses the meaning of filial piety from the two aspects of theliteral and essential connotation in detail.Then emphatically analyzed the origin anddevelopment process of filial piety.The concept of filial piety was produced whenhuman society developed into a certain stage. Filial piety thought originated fromprimitive society and is the earliest in the formation of patriarchal clan communeperiod, pay attention to advocate in the Yin dynasty, developed in the western zhoudynasty. It was perfected in the spring and autumn period and the warring statesperiod, in the spring and autumn dynasty, filial piety concept has been widely popularin the society.The second part focuses on the connotation of the Zengzi’s conception of filial piety.Six subdivisions are made to discuss it. Filial piety is the root of the maximalvirtue, the realization of all the good deeds and power source is filial piety. Filialpiety is human nature, is the emotional outpourings of human heart, and is the root oflife.Filial loyalty unity, loyal is filial, and filial is loyal. The two are inseparablerelationship,make filial and loyal perfectly together, form a whole,greatly enhance theconnotation of the traditional filial piety theory. And it simply introduced the differentlevels of filial piety theory.Filial conduct should have differences. The harmonioussignificance of filial piety on family and society also has drawn my great attention todo with.Filial piety can promote family harmony and social harmony. It can’t bemerely confined to the home and the supreme form makes people respect and fostertheir parents, and brings about the felicity of common people.Practice is veryimportant in filial piety. Zengzi is well known for its filial piety, is also a famousancient Chinese big filial son, he is not only to promote filial piety, in theory and inthe life practice of filial piety, everywhere is filial conduct model.The third part detailed evaluate Zengzi’s filial piety thought in two aspects tointroduce.It is the first historical status and influence of Zengzi’s filial piety thoughtanalysis, then expounds the essence and the alienation of Zengzi’s filial piety thought.Zengzi has a high status in history, filial piety is the essential effect. It on Confuciusfilial piety, the qi meng school of thought. At the same time, the filial piety thoughtfor later generations of zengzi produced and its far-reaching influence. Zengzi has itsessential parts filial piety is, of course, also has its negative effects, to take its essenceand rejecting the bad.The final part discusses the modern significance of Zengzi’s filial piety thoughts.It still have important value in today’s society. It can promote family harmony andsocial harmony. It characterized by respect,love,care,more show is in the reality andindifference of society, people especially need a kind of emotional humanitiesconcern.