Research On Chinese Traditional Filial Piety And Contemporary Rural Family Supporting

In a sense, Chinese traditional culture can be described as the culture of the filialpiety, so that no one country can be more than the Chinese understanding of filialpiety culture. Chinese traditional society provides the filial piety a uniqueenvironment and soil: its material base is the early maturity and prosperity of Chineseagriculture society, production of the agriculture society internally require supportingand respecting for the older; China stepped into civilized society is “the ancient Asia”,Chinese traditional political ideology present in blood relationship as the politicalbasis, patriarch system as the political principle, the reason is that primitive societybequeath blood umbilical.“The joining together of country and family” social formwill naturally make filial piety be vividly portrayed; When at the Spring and Autumnperiod, individual family grew up from the extended family, individual familyrequired children to support parents, namely filial piety. The traditional filial piety hasthe rich connotation: from the perspective of the family ethics, the connotation of thefilial piety, cherish yours body, the parents were proud of their children, to supporttheir parents, to respect their parents and obey their parents, to advice for their parents,to grief for their parents, worshipping for the parents; From the perspective ofpolitical ethics, the connotation of the filial piety is a combination of loyalty and thefilial piety, it has experienced the evolution from the filial piety as the fundamental ofloyal, loyalty separated from the filial piety, the filial piety service for loyalty; Thefilial piety has other cultural connotation, the filial piety is a traditional humanismreligion, the filial piety is the root of interpersonal relationship in the rural society, thefilial piety is the root of traditional ethics, the filial piety is an important part of thelaw in traditional society, the filial piety is the root of traditional education, the filialpiety involve people’s lifestyle and customs.Contemporary rural family supporting has necessity, because “getting old beforegetting rich”, the state of the separation of urban and rural social security, familysupporting has a unique advantage. The function of rural family supporting isbecoming weaken, such as, ignoring the accountability of provide for the aged,ignoring the spirituality, ignoring the affectivity, its reasons has, the New CultureMovement critiqued filial piety, the Cultural Revolution trample on filial piety, the practice of family planning, the elderly losing authority in rural areas, the outflow ofthe workforce in rural areas, the silence of the rural public opinion, the changes ofequity principle in the rural intergenerational relationships.In traditional agriculture society filial piety is the foundation of all kinds of morals,it is everything in the society. But in the industrial society, the difference betweenfamily and social organization is more and more big, the characteristics of family isunrealistic extend to other fields of the society, it is unrealistically that the filial pietyfrom family-oriented extend to political field, endlessly extending of filial piety is notrealistically, the filial piety should be returned to the status of the family ethics. Thefilial piety is the requirements of children for parent words and deeds. After “abstractsuccession” and “cultural self-consciousness”，the filial piety is similar with familysupporting, the new filial piety which returned to the family ethics guide the ruralsupporting, under the vision of the new filial piety contemporary rural familysupporting has the correct orientation: the new filial piety pay attention to the emotion,the family supporting should shift from feeding to comfort and attendance; The newfilial piety is multiple, we should rationally treat the different of the family supportingmode which is live together or live apart, the rural family supporting should shift fromrelying on sons into relying on sons and daughters; The new filial piety is autonomic,children in the rural family supporting should really understand the connotation of thefilial piety, children should consciously support their parents. This thesis points outthat perfecting the rural family supporting has two measures: The first, we cancombine the family education, the school education and the social education tostrengthen the filial piety education in the countryside. The second, we should“introduce the filial piety into the law” and improve the supporting legal system. It isinevitably trend to combine family supporting, social retirement and the old-ageself-provision.