| Filial piety education has been favored by rulers who lived in ages past, not only because that filial piety culture is the treasure of brilliant history of Chinese civilization, at the same time as the core of social morality, it has been affecting the character and integrity of common people. Moreover, rulers also follow the rule of "managing the world by the filial piety", and incorporate the filial piety education into all fields of the society. So to speak, the economic development, cultural prosperity, ethnic harmony of an era is closely related with the filial piety education. Rulers of Song dynasty know the truth very well, and then create the atmosphere of filial piety, promote the filial piety education actively, people from all social fields and all levels of the impacted by the viewpoint of filial piety.The filial piety education in Song dynasty was comprehensive and perfect. On the basis of the national policy of managing the nation by filial piety in the former dynasty, rulers strengthen the filial conduct inspection of officials, improve endowment measures, appraise the practice and behavior of filial piety, and punish the unfilial crime. And then infuse filial piety idea completely into the political life, so as to lay down a foundation for the atmosphere filial piety in the folks. As a bridge linking the folks and filial piety idea, advised filial piety panels, filial piety stories, convention and training of the common have largely to spread of the filial piety culture, the filial piety idea, and they have also made great contribution to helping the social members to accept the filial piety. In addition, schools and families provide children with knowledge education, at the same time, they also instill in them the idea of filial piety, family precepts and teaching materials become the media for children to understand and experience the filial piety. So far, all social levels of the Song dynasty have accepted the great power filial piety contains and inheritance of Chinese traditional ethics that has presented to the world by means of different cultivation.This thesis starts from the social background of valuing the filial piety education in Song dynasty; and explores the way in which filial piety education of song dynasty implements; and recalls influence filial piety education has exerted on all social levels; and summarizes features different from the that of the former dynasties; and the shock of the overflow of the foolish filial conduct to the filial piety education, as well as the impact on later generations that Song dynasty promote the filial piety mechanism and make winged evaluation. |
