The virtue of moving the heavens is greater than filial piety, and the way of feeling things is more sincere.
- "A Collection of Aphorisms"
If there is always benevolence and filial piety, then all those who cannot do anything in the world will not tolerate it.
- "The Night Talk of the Hearth"
Traditional Chinese culture, many cultural treasures handed down, idioms are one of them. Each idiom is an outline of a particular cultural system, rich in values and methodological meanings.
The Chinese idiom "loyalty and filial piety", also known as loyalty and filial piety. In ancient Chinese culture, it was a personality that cultivated and made a difference.
Filial piety, as a core value, is the virtue of governing the family and respecting the elderly.
Loyalty, as an important value proposition, is the chastity of serving the country faithfully.
The idiom "loyalty and filial piety" comes from the Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi's "Right Servant Shooting System for The Inspection of the School in Addition to Cheng Zhigong", the original text is: "Karma will be omitted, the name is in the Xun Book; Yun Tianjue is to cultivate himself, and loyalty and filial piety are both complete." ”
Here, "loyalty and filial piety" is a value concept that is close to perfection, but in reality, loyalty and filial piety cannot be both. Sometimes, the Gu xiaojia cannot be loyal to everyone in the country; sometimes, it is difficult to take care of the small family wholeheartedly because they are loyal to the country.
From the perspective of life values, the essence of the intrinsic value of "loyalty and filial piety" is to realize the moral value and life ideal of "loyalty and filial piety" in the merits of qi family and governance of the country. Be loyal to the country and filial to your parents. Thanksgiving is filial piety and respect for the elderly; filial piety to the world, great love has no boundaries.
From the perspective of life methodology, "loyalty and filial piety" is to be loyal in the promotion of filial piety and to expand the virtue of filial piety in loyalty. The relationship between loyalty and filial piety is to push and expand the value of meaning. Governing the family takes filial piety as the first priority, and serving the country is based on loyalty.
The filial piety of parents in life should be as sincere as parents raising their children, reflecting the true feelings of "licking calves". True filial piety is to repay the kindness of parents to their parents with the heart of their parents.
Loyalty to the motherland is the ultimate in life, when there is love like I love my family, reflecting the loyalty of love like a family. The most loyal one is to sincerely love the small family, and to promote and expand the grace of serving the motherland.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > and filial piety, that is, loyalty and filial piety. </h1>
In the ancient Chinese cultural tradition, loyalty to the country is to promote and expand its ability to love the family. "Cultivate the body and then the family, and then the family is the rule of the country" ("University"). Filial piety is a matter of ethical self-cultivation, and loyalty is a matter of political service to the country. He who is loyal to the country will be able to fulfill the filial piety of his family, and only by doing his filial piety of love and affection will he be able to achieve the loyalty of the country.
Loyalty to the country is a process of grace. "Dear and dear, benevolent; respectful, righteous; without him, the world is also reached." (Mencius, Dedication to the Heart) The Qi family loves the family, and must have the virtue of benevolence and righteousness. To promote and expand benevolence and righteousness to the people of our country is to serve the country's loyalty.
The ancients regarded the "country under the heavens" as one, the country is a big home, and the home is the small family of the country. "Standing up for love and respect for the elders, starting from the family state and ending in the four seas." (Shang Shu Yi Xun) Loving the family and loving the country is not only an important connotation of the realization of the value of life, but also the responsibility that people should fulfill.
Loyalty to the country and grace to the people lies in "the old man, and the old man, the young man, and the young man" (Mencius Liang Hui Wang Shang). The extreme of grace is enough to protect the country and benefit the people; if it is not to promote grace, it is not enough to protect parents and wives.
If there is no home, there will be no country, and the country is an enlarged home; without a country, the family will not be protected, and the country will be the home of many. "If you can fill it, it is enough to protect the whole world; if you can't fill it, it is not enough to do things for your parents." (Mencius Gongsun Ugly) Filial piety to parents, based on the heart of benevolence. Loving both his wife and his parents is both the duty of a benevolent person and the duty of a human being.
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Loyalty to the country must be premised on filial piety. "Whoever wants to rule his country, first gather his family." Those who want to unite their homes, first cultivate their bodies. (The University). Cultivate yourself first in the virtue of filial piety, and then you can be loyal to the country. If you can't honor your parents, why talk about serving the country? If the grace of parents is not repaid, how can there be a national favor?
To be loyal to the country is to fulfill filial piety. The benevolent are all loving, and they are anxious to kiss and kiss. Shun occupies a great position, and is worried about not admiring his parents, so he is a great filial piety. Filial piety to parents is not only an inevitable embodiment of character, but also an essential quality requirement for governing the country. Non-filial piety to parents is not enough for the Qi family, and non-Qi family is not enough to govern the country.
In the "Filial Piety Classic", it is believed that "filial piety begins with relatives, in the matter of the king, and finally stands up." Those who love their relatives do not dare to be evil to others; those who respect relatives dare not be slower than others. The skin of the body is affected by the parents, but it does not dare to be damaged, and the evil is slower than the person. If we can "love and respect our relatives", we will be able to "add morality to the people", and benevolence and indoctrination will be extended to the world.
The "final establishment" of filial piety is actually the "end of filial piety" of "standing on the path of walking, making a name for oneself in the hereafter, and showing one's parents." "Standing on the path of one's own body" means that the way is inseparable, and the path of honor and benevolence is carried out; if one is famous in the future generations, one will make meritorious contributions and make achievements, which will be the achievements of governing the country. "If there is always benevolence and filial piety, then all those who cannot do anything in the world will not tolerate it." ("The Night Talk of the Hearth") If there is benevolence and filial piety, there is a heart that cannot bear people, and it will practice the government of the intolerable people and be good to the world.
To be loyal to the country must be based on filial piety to one's parents. In the same way, filial piety to parents requires honoring the ancestors and committing to loyalty to the country. The greatest filial piety is to inherit the aspirations of parents and make them worthy of their own birth and maintenance, and to repay the value of life given by their parents in the name of serving the motherland.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > the two perfections of loyalty and filial piety, that is, the simultaneous cultivation of merit and virtue. </h1>
The essence of the value of "loyalty and filial piety" lies in the unity of virtue and merit. Filial piety to one's parents is the virtue of one's own deeds; loyalty to the motherland is the establishment of meritorious deeds. Meritorious service is based on moral cultivation. From filial piety to parents to neutral morality, from serving the motherland to neutral merit. If there is the virtue of filial piety, it is inevitable to enter the moral cultivation without stopping.
Loyalty and filial piety are the norm of life. If there is a way under the heavens, everyone with lofty ideals can achieve both loyalty and filial piety. It is possible to cultivate oneself to fulfill filial piety, and it is also possible to make meritorious contributions to repay the country. Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, but the responsibility of life in times of adversity or special missions. Or filial piety can not be faithful, or loyalty can not fulfill filial piety.
In today's era, those who are anonymous for the special mission of the country cannot fulfill their filial piety to their parents, but they can be loyal to the country. Serving the motherland is also a filial piety to carry forward the wishes of parents. Great filial piety, filial piety to the country, fine loyalty to the country.
"Loyalty and filial piety", as a realm close to perfection in life, is the unity of sincerity and loyalty. "The virtue of moving the heavens is greater than filial piety, and the way of feeling things is more than sincerity." ("A collection of aphorisms") Filial piety has the true feeling of "licking", then it is sincere; loyalty with the same love as "loving the family" is loyal. Only loyalty and sincerity, "pure and endless" ("The Mean"), can be loyal and filial piety.
Filial piety lies in doing one's own filial piety in sincerity, that is, to give back to the parents' nurturing grace with the heart of their parents. To be loyal lies in being loyal to oneself, that is, to love one's motherland as one does to my family. Loyalty and filial piety are two sides of the same coin, and cannot be opposed and paranoid. Filial piety should be based on filial piety.
Filial piety is a true feeling from the heart, and loyalty is an expanded sense of truth. "We need feelings, but the source of feelings only comes from the incomparable love for the motherland and the people, and without this surging source, all the heat waves of feelings will dry up." Only with an incomparable love for the motherland and the people can we fulfill our loyalty and filial piety.
For people today, filial piety must become both the duty of being a human being and the responsibility of maintaining social harmony. If you do not repay the favor of your biological parents, there will be no love, and there will be no way to take over others, push yourself and others, and it is difficult to stand in the world.
For people today, loyalty is both a life practice of self-worth and a civic obligation to serve the country. If we do not repay the grace of the mother of the motherland, there will be no grace and righteousness, and there will be no way to establish faith in the world, and it will be difficult to achieve great deeds by promoting the people.
The 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, which have gone through vicissitudes and have continued endlessly, have fully proved the tenacious vitality of traditional Chinese culture and the pioneering ability to meet various challenges. This cultural connotation not only comes from the search for truth of "learning, thinking, and viewing", but also presents the rational consciousness and open thinking of "learning, thinking and thinking". Let us work together to plunge into the torrent of the era of "cultural self-confidence" and contribute calm thinking, sober response, courageous struggle, and worthy of dedication to the great rejuvenation of the nation. Firmly believe in "cultural self-confidence" and practice "cultural self-confidence", the Chinese nation will certainly be able to achieve great rejuvenation.
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