On Zhu Xi’s Filial Piety Education Thoughts In Xiao Xue:Intelligence Development With Practice, Heart Completion With Improvement

In the book of Xiao Xue, Zhu Xi raised the law of study, which is a study law, a study principle, and a study thoughts. As a study law, it reveals the trend of study development, which is quite similar with the definition of Learning published by UNESCO. As a study principle, it positively makes use of the study law that practice promotes Intelligence Development and improvement points to Heart Completion, which reveals that education should cause the happening of learning activities. The study principle that causes the happening of learning activities is both a study thoughts and an educational thoughts.Zhu Xi’s Filial Piety Education is a thoughts pointing to Learning, in which whose aim, goals, principle, and methods are in the same conformity. Filial Piety education in Xiao Xue could be divided into three parts, i.e., behavior, ways, and virture. Behavior education includes5behaviors:(l)Respects in daily life, which means to respect the parents’place or existence, orders, the beloved, the respected.(2)Supporting parents, which means to support parents with both physical and spiritual needs as much as possible.(3)Illness service, which includes to taste the traditional Chinese medicine soup, to extend the worries, and to know something about the doctor or healings.(4)Only when parents make big mistakes that causes very bad influence could they be advised or bargained.(5)Be sad in funeral and be rigorous in worship(祭祀in Chinese). Filial Piety Ways education has3ways:(1)Respecting oneself:to talk and behavior cautiously, to maintain body and virtue perfectly.(2)Respecting parents:to love and respect, to extend the love and respect in time.(3)Respecting the truth of the matters:to change according to the truth or real situation, to be benevolent and just. Filial Piety virtue education implants the Filial Piety culture into individual as second nature by study and internalization. The Filial Piety education in behaviors, ways and virtue is a process of being cultured by the Filial Piety learning from outside to inside, and consolidated from inside to outside.