The Construction Of New Filial Ethics In The Background Of Aging In China

In long years of Chinese traditional times, the filial piety culture, taking the family as thecenter and becoming a core concept and the primary cultural spirit of Chinese culture, was thetraditional Chinese society moral principles for maintaining the family relationship. Sincemodern times, with the great transformation of China’s economy and society and the ideology ofdemocracy and equality gradually interiorizing the people’s heart, traditional filial piety ethics,due to its strong feudal and backward characteristic, encountered a devastating attack. At present,our country entered the aging society with non-sufficient economic development. A society of"aging before getting rich" is bearing a huge pressure to pension. We can’t help looking back athistory, thinking about the present and rethinking the new connotation and value of filial pietyethics.The first part describes the reason of building new filial piety ethics under the backgroundof aging in our country. Firstly，aging society in our country is facing huge pressure in providingfor the aged, but the backward economy cannot provide sufficient economic support for thepension business. Family endowment, the dominant endowment pattern, appears new problems,namely, the function of family endowment is reducing because of the decreasing number ofoffspring since the implementation of the family planning police. Meanwhile, market economyhas led to the enormous outflow of young workers away from their hometown, which weakensthe capacity of children to carry out their endowment obligation. Secondly, the traditional filialpiety was under strong critique. In the face of contemporary huge pressure in providing for theaged, filial piety is still on the verge of a forgotten position by society without playing its roleeffectively. The huge pension pressure in aging society strongly calls for the revitalization offilial piety.The second part describes the significance of building new filial piety ethics under thebackground of aging in our country. Firstly, it is a necessity to build new filial piety ethics underthe background of aging in our country. At present, family endowment is the main endowmentpattern of our country, given this situation, families with the new filial piety ethics will make theelderly get better family care. The new filial piety ethics is a good way to ease the spiritualemptiness of old people in present China, which makes a feedback of love return back home anda smile back on the faces and hearts of the elderly. To build a new filial piety ethics is the need ofthe development of traditional filial piety ethics itself. Nowadays, the new filial piety will take itsnew task after continuing traditional filial piety of thousand years and experiencing difficulties.Secondly, there are important practical significance in building the new filial piety. It willpromote the life happiness of the elderly, family harmony, social stability, and the enhancementof nation strength, and it will help realize earlier the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The third part discusses the ways to construct the new filial piety ethics. Firstly, we shallbuild the new filial piety based with the right attitude, namely, we shall find the correct way tobuild the new filial on the base of critical inheritance of traditional filial piety ethics, andadhering to the principles of combining contemporaneity with civilization, universality withnationality, science with harmony and mutual promotion of the theory and practice. Secondly, thecontents of the new filial piety ethics are planed preliminarily, including personality equality, tocherish life, spiritual support, simple mourning and burial, intergenerational harmony and toexpand the concern and love for the aged. Finally, the measure of practicing the new filial pietyethics is listed, including the guarantee of legal and mechanism from the government, socialpublicity, gratitude education, parents precept and personal discipline.The article tells the reason, significance, ways of building new filial piety, trying to definethe new filial piety basing on the history wisdom, experience of domestic and overseas, andstate of today. The article embarks from the actual depicts the new filial piety ethics will ease thecurrent aging huge endowment pressure, beautiful blueprint for building a harmonious society.