Filial piety

Filial piety is the virtue of showing love and respect toward one parents, elders and ancestors within Confucian, Chinese Buddhist and Daoist ethics, and it is central to Confucian role ethics. The Confucian Classic of Filial Piety, believed to date from around the late Warring States, Qin or Han period and framed as a dialogue between Confucius and his student Zengzi, has traditionally served as the authoritative statement of the virtue and of how it can be used to build a good society. In broader terms filial piety means caring for one parents, behaving well both at home and outside it so as to bring honor to parents and ancestors, showing love, respect and support, maintaining fraternity among brothers, wisely advising parents including steering them from wrongdoing, and mourning and carrying out proper rites after their deaths. It remains a key virtue across Chinese and other East Asian cultures and is the subject of many traditional stories, most famously the collection known as the Twenty-four Cases of Filial Piety. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/