Confucius Filial Piety Thought And Its Contemporary Value

"Filial piety" is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation,and one of the core content of China traditional ethics. Confucius,as a famous thinker in ancient China,"filial piety" in his thought system also occupies a space for one person. Confucius lives in the society chaotic era,used "filial piety" as the starting point, summarizing the Zhou Dynasty before the filial piety is proposed on the basis of the filial piety of his own,has played a positive role in maintaining social order,regulate interpersonal relationships. Chinese is in the critical period of modernization construction, people’s material life has great enriched,spiritual life,but fail to get the equal development.The traditional filial piety is gradually fading out of people’s sight, resulting in a series of social problems. At the same time, now China is entering the aging of the population, this requires our fine tradition of Filial Piety Morality to pick up the urgent, achieve the social stability and development.Filial piety morality has universality and inherited characteristics, having played a positive role in China for several thousand years of feudal society.The construction of socialist spiritual civilization in China based on the present should also learn the essence of Confucius "filial piety" moral theory,so as to serve socialist modernization.This is an important way of constructing harmonious society. This article will according to the research model background--Theoretical Connotation-Theory of value, through the literature analysis, historical analysis and other methods,centering on Confucius filial piety.This thought is divided into four parts to explore the theoretical significance and the value of the times.The first part from the political structure of home and country one of ancient China,and the collapse of the system of enfeoffment and the well field system,the rise of private school at that time explaining the political background, economic background and cultural background of Confucius filial piety. The second part discusses the basic connotation of Confucius filial piety,compares with him of the same period of other schools of thought of filial piety, analysis of the ideological characteristics, through the longitudinal comparative analysis the historical significance and negative influence of the theory, and objective to evaluate Confucius, through the development history of full understanding Confucius filial piety. The third part mainly elaborated the modern situation Confucius filial piety, and discuss the current situation of filial piety morality absence, harm and the analysis of the causes. The last part mainly investigate the applicability of Confucius filial piety thought, exploring what value is sill applicable in present of Confucius filial piety, and put forward the measure of reconstructing the modern filial piety culture.