The ancients said: "Filial piety comes first".
The Disciple Rules also quote famous sentences from the Analects
"Disciple, filial piety when entering, filial piety when leaving..."
It can be seen that the important position of "filial piety" in Chinese culture,
When it comes to filial piety, we have to mention filial piety Min Ziqian,
Who is Min Ziqian?
Zi Yue: Filial piety Min Zi Qian, people do not distinguish between the words of their parents Kun Di.
Min Ziqian was a disciple of Confucius, and was known as the Seventy-Two Wise Men in Confucius for virtue and Yan Hui.
Confucius said that the person who really deserves to be called a filial piety, Min Ziqian counts one.
Min Ziqian is extremely filial.
He lost his mother at a young age, and his father married his stepmother,
The stepmother only favors her own second son, which is very bad for Min Ziqian;
In winter, she made cotton clothes, and she lined her own son with cotton,
And for Min Ziqian, he used cheap and cold reed flowers,
However, Zi Qian did not tell her father to avoid affecting the relationship between her parents.
One day the father took the three of them out,
Let Min Ziqian whip the car in front,
Min Ziqian was too cold to drive,
As a result, the carriage slid into a ditch beside the road.
The father said very angrily, you are really not a child, wearing a cotton jacket and still shivering!
He was then whipped, only to rip his clothes to reveal the reeds.
The father kneaded the cotton clothes of the other two sons again, and understood in his heart,
The father knew that he had wronged Min Ziqian, and then scolded his wife for not being virtuous, and decided to divorce his wife.
Zi Qian knelt in front of his father and interceded for his stepmother:
The mother is cold in one son, and the mother goes to the third son.
In the end, the father stopped divorcing his wife, and the stepmother was also touched by Min Ziqian.
Therefore, it is said that "people can do it without saying anything to their parents. ”
This is very difficult, which is why he is called the Great Filial Piety.
Of course, when Confucians say filial piety, we must pay attention to filial piety, filial piety, and filial piety, but we do not say filial piety.
Because adding a smooth word, it is easy to cause the misunderstanding that everything should be obeyed.
In fact, for the words of parents, reasonable of course should be smooth,
If it is unreasonable, it cannot be obeyed.
Blind obedience is actually filial piety!