Filial Pietyand Filial Piety Behavior Of The Elderly In Contemporary Ruralareas

Filial piety, which is the starting point of Chinese traditional ethics, is the core of Chinese culture and the traditional virtue of respecting. Since ancient times, filial piety bears the important function of family support for the aged. However, in the process of industrialization, China’s society has changed dramatically; humans’ thinking and family structure has changed greatly. Based on this, this study explores the concept of traditional filial piety and the evaluation of filial piety of the elderly in rural areas from the concept of filial piety of the elderly in rural areas.Based on the survey data of 14 villages in Hubei Province, this study was based on the study of 327 rural elderly who aged 60 and over. The views of the traditional filial piety and the evaluation of filial piety in this part of the elderly were investigated respectively. The research mainly uses the questionnaire survey and the depth interview and the SPSS statistical analysis method to carry on the analysis to the above content.The conclusions of this study are as follows: first, the concept of filial piety has changed. Specific performance: first of all, in the view of the elderly in rural areas, "respect" is still the first, "obedience" significantly decreased. Parents and children from the past "blind obedience" become "equal consultation". Secondly, give babies gradually weaken, but gender equality enhance. Married daughter is no longer poured out of the water, the maintenance of the elderly and children both. Secondly, the elderly are no longer required their children moment squire in the body, but let the children to pursue the life they want, as long as in their poor help themselves. Finally, "make your parents happy" has been strengthened. Children speak amiable, the well-being of the elderly, the glorious future, this is the best return on parenting grace.Second, daughter pension play a huge role. Traditional Chinese, married daughters no longer have the obligation to support their parents; in the family they play the role of the missing person. In recent years, our long-term implementation of the family planning policy makes the family number plummeted, economic development also spawned a group of women migrant workers, to enhance their economic independence and family status so that they have the ability to provide more resources and care for their parents. In this study, we can clearly see that no matter in life care or spiritual comfort to pay more than the son.Third, the spirit of support is parent’s expectations. Spiritual support is a relativelyindependent problem which is different from the material support or economic support.The traditional society, people’s time is abundant and the opportunity cost is low. But in modern society, families living in the structure change and migrant workers increased,making "empty nesters" demand for spiritual feeling rises.Fourth, filial piety is generally better evaluation. There are always some contradictions in the research on filial piety. In the previous studies, there has been a demonstration of the stage of "filial piety". From the author’s survey can be found to exclude the most unfavorable situation, at least more than 70% of the elderly have a positive attitude towards their children. With economic and social development, the elderly health and economic level than in the past to slightly improve, reduce dependence on children, coupled with the change of the concept of filial piety, filial to their children’s evaluation standard is to adapt to the characteristics of today’s society, the development of economy and population.Fifth, the concept of filial piety in the elderly affects the evaluation of filial piety behavior of children. The more traditional concept of the elderly to retain the filial piety of filial piety is lower, on the contrary, the more modern ideas of the elderly, the more likely to give children a positive evaluation. Through this we can prove that the traditional concept of filial piety has changed, and to a certain extent, it affects the filial piety of the elderly to the children.Therefore, the innovation of this study is mainly embodied in the concept of filial piety and the evaluation of children, to better reflect the relationship between the concept and evaluation. In addition, there are some deficiencies in this study, a lot of research and discussion is not very mature. To explore the changes of filial piety, it should be more comprehensive in the study of the population in the age group. Secondly, enhancing the coherence of the whole paper and the further research of the follow-up are to be improved.