East Han Shifu Filial Piety Research

Filial piety is the virtue of the ancient heritage of the Chinese nation.he Han Dynasty established the "filial piety" governing filial piety governance,make originally belonging to the family ethics of filial piety to national political and social level,become the whole society generally follow the moral code of conduct.Light of the Eastern Han Dynasty emperor Wu revitalization of the country,the inheritance of the Western Han Dynasty filial piety governance,set out to collectors reform from the Confucian scholar class,finally formed the literary intelligentsia class,become an important part of state power.scholar-bureaucrats who have certain political status as the Eastern Han Dynasty the social class and cultural knowledge,they to usurp the role of the scholar,positive practice of the Confucian filial piety,make social reflect a lot of worthy progeny,effectively promoted the deep mourning of the Eastern Han Dynasty social ethos.The Eastern Han Dynasty continued to implement filial piety and adopted a series of measures to promote filial piety.By taking the "filial piety" as the popular textbook of the whole society,there are such measures as filial piety,praise filial piety,punishment filial piety and so on,and expand the influence range of filial thoughts.The Eastern Han Dynasty family is more concerned about the cultivation of children sense of filial piety.and it is the duty of the scholar-bureaucrats to obey the filial piety and fulfill the duty of the son of man in his daily life.In the case of the filial piety of the Eastern Han Dynasty,it was mainly embodied in the filial piety of the relatives of the parents,filial piety to the non-relatives,Combining filial piety and loyalty.The Eastern Han Dynasty Confucian attaches great importance to thing of filial piety to parents,through a series of specific filial conduct the practice of filial piety to parents,especially for the stepmother of filial piety,whether stepmother harsh or mercy,such as the biological mother of scholar-bureaucrats all can,shows the scholar-bureaucrats higher moral character.In comparison with the Western Han,the Eastern Han scholar-bureaucrats paid more attention to the formal filial piety of their parents after death.The "death ceremony" has become the conscious active behavior of the scholar-bureaucrats at the time.At the same time,the relation of the filial piety,to the Eastern Han Dynasty last years gradually appeared the trend of the ethics of filial piety,attaches great importance to the loyal ethics despised makes the society appeared a large number of loyal to the people of the country,effectively defend the state power.These different lines of filial piety of the Eastern Han Dynasty werecharacterized by a distinct period of time.The number of people who act as filial piety is increasing and the way of filial piety is more varied.With the link between filial piety and politics,the utility of the scholar-bureaucrats 's filial piety was strengthened.Due to the Eastern Han Dynasty literary intelligentsia the excessive pursuit of funeral ceremony after the death of their parents,filial conduct makes the literary intelligentsia line for more extreme,leading to social appearance of foolish filial conduct more and more,seriously affected the later literary intelligentsia's filial standards.In short,the practice of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Eastern Han Dynasty had a profound effect on not only the Eastern Han society but also the later world.