The Research Of Shen Sheng’s Filial Piety Story

The story of Shen Sheng’s filial piety,as a classic example of traditional filial piety,contains a rich array of filial piety thoughts that has a significant influence in history.The introduction of the paper reviews the research results of Shen Sheng’s filial piety,and analyzes the existing problems in the current study.The text revolves around the story construction of Shen Sheng’s filial piety story and the central issue of filial son controversy,examines the records of Shen Sheng’s filial piety story in ancient books from pre-Qin and the Han Dynasties,and summarizes the specific plot differences of Shen Sheng’s filial piety story in each book.Meanwhile,the paper specifically examines the query and criticism of the ghost and fox plot after Shen Sheng’s death,as recorded in the Lun Heng by Wang Chong during the Eastern Han Dynasty.These analyses demonstrated that the plot of the story of Shen Sheng’s filial piety is not straightforward but gradually superimposed by historians.Then,the paper focuses on the main characters in the story of Shen Sheng’s filial piety and explores how they played a role in Shen Sheng’s death.The paper analyzes who should be responsible for the death of Shen Sheng,the duke Xian of the Jin Dynasty and the concubine of Li,and explains the influence of Rick,who remained neutral in the political vortex,and Yuankuan Du,who taught filial piety to Shen Sheng,on Shen Sheng’s death.The paper also compares the filial piety of Chonger,who is forced into exile by the slander concubine of Li but achieved a hegemonic career,with that of Shen Sheng.Moreover,the paper puts the story of Shen Sheng’s filial piety in the context of the Spring and Autumn Period to investigate the academic history and discuss the influence of the chaotic royal father-son relationship on Shen Sheng’s filial piety in the Spring and Autumn Period.By investigating the characteristics of filial piety embodied in Shen Sheng’s death,the paper reveals the basic direction of filial piety thought in the Spring and Autumn Period from a small perspective.Finally,this dissertation explores the later interpretation of Shen Sheng’s story.This paper discusses the different views of scholars on the filial son image of Shen Sheng,and reveals that although Shen Sheng hanged himself to make his father is blamed,his original intention which not disobeying his father’s orders is enough to define him a filial son.In view of the plot of Shen Sheng’s filial piety story itself,the paper explores the interpretation of Shen Sheng’s filial piety story in the literary creation of later generations.Although the story of Shen Sheng’s filial piety has been relatively fixed since the Records of the Historian,with the development of later generations’ literature,it has been reinterpreted from a historical perspective and played a new role in literary works.In a word,this paper takes the text record of Shen Sheng’s filial piety story as the main line and the filial piety behavior of his death testimony as the sideline to narrate and discuss.This work investigates Shen Sheng’s practice of Confucian filial piety standards under the special Spring and Autumn Period background and pays attention to later generations’ thinking on Shen Sheng’s filial piety and the derivative story.To a certain extent,it deepens people’s understanding of Shen Sheng’s filial piety stories and the history of filial piety culture in Pre-Qin Dynasty,and enriches relevant studies on the history of filial piety culture in China.