On Zencius' Filial Piety

Zencius inherits filial piety of Confucius' and concept of filial piety before Spring and Autumn period,taking filial piety as basic principle of human beings,attaching great importance to filial piety,which focuses on continuity of life,emphasizing filial piety to be basis of laws and ultimate principles,discriminating it into several levels such as big filial piety,middle filial piety and small filial piety.He regards respect as judgement of filial piety and attaches importance to practice,he himself is a fine example.