A Research On Folk Encouraging Filial Piety Documents During The Northern And Southern Dynasties

Folk encouraging filial piety documents have a purpose of advising people to comply with the filial piety. New forms of filial piety documents appeared, including poetries, paintings, family instructions, child initiation readings, conventions and popular stories, in order to advertise the documents of filial piety. It is a very important component of filial piety documents. Song dynasty is ancient Chinese filial piety develop the most height of the stage, not only appeared a lot of extremely unique filial piety documents, but also appeared a large number of various historical records, poems and essays in documents. These documents are a valuable cultural heritage, which spread widely and profoundly in the folk. In regard of that, I had a comprehensive and deep study on folk encouraging filial piety documents during the northern and southern song dynasties.This paper is divided into five parts: Part one,"introduction", I stated the article research meaning, the research overview, the research route and methods. The second part of"the survey of folk encouraging filial piety documents in song dynasty", briefly stating the definition of encouraging filial piety documents, then based on literature analysis its content and characteristics. The third part of the"the classification of folk encouraging filial piety documents in song dynasty", according to different genres, the author classifies all documents into encouraging filial piety poem, essay, painting and popular story; according to the different form of existence, I can divide them into special encouraging filial piety articles, some encouraging filial piety words and phrases which are existing in family instructions, child initiation readings, conventions and so on, and some encouraging filial piety in chorography. The fourth part of"the case interpretation of folk encouraging filial piety documents"is the centre and emphasis of the paper, the author selected four representative folk encouraging filial piety documents to read. Through the typical works interpretation, we can compare with the different types of documents in spreading the ideology of filial piety. Because it could reflect the phenomenon of common people develop filial piety in song dynasty. The fifth part,"the value and limitation of folk encouraging filial piety documents in song dynasty", the song dynasty encouraging filial piety is an important proof of reading the ancient Chinese filial piety culture, which has great cultural value and social value. But it also sent some foolish filial piety ideas to people, which have certain limitations.In short, we should correctly treat the ancient filial piety culture, and reasonably apply them to modern society. So our traditional culture can get better inheritance, and it is very good for the development of harmonious society.