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Filial Piety
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What does Filial Piety mean?
noun
- The virtue of showing respect and doing good deeds for one's parents, elders, and ancestors, as understood in Confucian ethics and commonly observed in the Sinosphere.
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"It is a touching instance of the King's filial piety, deplorably mistaken, but perfectly sincere."
It might fairly be objected to the later development of the industrial process that its discipline tends to "materialism," to the elimination of filial piety.
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"What filial piety! what mournful grace, For a lost parent, sits on Chudleigh's face Fair virgin, weep no more, your anguish smother! You in this town can never want a mother."
Or she may have read the "Filial Piety Classic for Girls" in which she learned the importance of the attitude she assumed towards those who were in authority over her, but certain it is she was not educated.
Therefore our reverence and love for them was really an imaginative extension of our love for our immediate parents, and with this sentiment of filial piety was joined a willingness to appeal to them, as to a father, for such good gifts as we may desire.