In China the emphasis of Confucianism is laid on the duty of filial piety.
By Filial Piety, I mean the exercise of those feelings of reverence, submission, and love; and the faithful and conscientious discharge of those duties, which children owe their parents.
The title of king was given to him and to others by the duke, according to the view of filial piety, that has been referred to on p.
The above sketch of the seasonal sacrifices to ancestors shows that they were intimately related to the duty of filial piety, and were designed mainly to maintain the unity of the family connexion.
He published an edition of the Classic of Filial Piety, and caused the text to be engraved on four tablets of stone, A.
He was a model of filial piety, and when his mother died he wept so violently that he brought up several pints of blood.
He is one of the twenty-four classical examples of filial piety, having waited on his sick mother for three years without changing his clothes.
The Hsiao Ching, or Classic of Filial Piety, is assigned partly to Confucius and partly to TSENG TS'AN, though it more probably belongs to a very much later date.
Meng Wu Po[6] asked for a definition of filial piety.
Tzu Yu put a question on the subject of filial piety.
Meng I Tzu[4] asked for a definition of filial piety.
Such is the genesis of filial piety, which plays so large a part in Chinese ethics.
When a mother speaks, one must obey; filial piety is the basis of all good doctrine.
The route, as has been seen, was difficult and long; but hesitation in the matter was out of the question: filial piety had to surmount all obstacles.
Whenever our Mr. Pao-yü's filial piety is aroused, he shows himself filial over and above the highest degree!
Is it out of any idea of filial piety that I came after you?
There are three things mainly to strive for: filial piety, that is the most important; integrity; and humanity.
Besides, of a hundred virtues, filial piety is the best.
What a want of filial piety, what a shameful inattention to his wrongs would it be, knowingly to confirm such an unnatural inclination!
That there are as fine examples of filial piety to-day as any of those recorded in the popular book that has been quoted is unquestionable, but they are rare.
Next in importance to the brochure of Confucius on filial piety is a book quite as widely known, which is entitled The Twenty-four Examples of Filial Piety.
In all patriarchal societies with a settled civilization, there is evolved, out of the worship of ancestors, a Religion of Filial Piety.
If any one raises any complaint hereafter, let him be sent to the magistrate in order that he may receive punishment for the crime of want of filial piety (pu hsiao).
The whole Chinese administrative system is based on the doctrine of filial piety, in its most extended signification of duty to natural parents and also to political parents, as the Emperor's magistrates are to this day familiarly called.
They had taken service under the British flag: but did that entitle them to become traitors to their own country, and to violate the sacred bonds of filial piety?
Intimately connected with ancestral worship is the practice of filial piety; it is in fact on filial piety that ancestral worship is dependent for its existence.
In these tracts are usually many stories illustrating the rewards of filial piety.
The tract says: "Filial piety is the chief of all virtues.
It has taken over the ethics of the family, filial piety, obedience and respect for elders, and has made them a part of its system.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filial piety" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
