| Filial piety, was the old saying of criterion to supporting parents, and its fundamental meaning is to up-rearing and respect parents. But in different period, it has different requests. Traditional filial piety, as the outcome of the small-scaled peasant economy and patriarchal society, was not only including to give good service to parents, but also to sacrifice the ancestor and to respect the clan, as well as to have children. It was the starting point and the core of the traditional family morality, and even the whole traditional morality system. So, it had done a good role of defending traditional family and social stability.But modern society has changed a lot. The family structure and the society historical condition which the traditional filial piety used to base on have changed fundamentally. That is the trend to small, core, different family and the transformation of economy basics, society construction, and culture transmission mechanism. Thus, to have a modern transformation is necessary as if the traditional filial piety want to play a good role in modern society continuously. This is also the inherent development request for the traditional filial piety to overcome its defect.The target of the traditional filial piety's modern transformation is to promote the construction of harmonious family. For this, the detail requests of modern transformation are to develop what is useful and discard what is not which the traditional filial piety had, to set up a suitable position, to have the traditional filial idea and behavior pattern had a modern transformation, and to build up a guarantee mechanism. All of this should be done under certain principles. These are the critical inherit principle, the synthesis and create principle, and the system structure principle. Only by this, can the filial piety play a good role on promoting household member's morality quality, harmonizing family relationship and family cells.
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