New Reading of The Classic on Filial Piety

The Classic on Filial Piety is a Confucian classic. If we study it thoroughly, we can get some useful apocalypse. “Filial piety is the base of virtue, and education is bore of it .”These words reveals the importance of filial piety and tells us that we must pay much attention to the education about the virtue of filial piety. “There is no beginning and end to filial piety, and no one have title to say that he can't practice filial piety.” It tells us that everyone can be a son or daughter who have filial piety. The Classic on Filial Piety bring up some propositions that how to practice filial piety: In family, people must practice “five kinds of filial piety”; In society, people must obey “three prohibition”; To an individual, he must love himself and be successful. To criticize somebody's faults frankly is another kind of filial piety. This thought expresses democracy to some degree, and we should insist it on especially.