Research On The Filial Piety Thoughts Of The Representative Figures Of Confucianism In The Pre-Qin Dynasty

Filial filial piety is one of the most important contents of traditional Chinese ideology and culture,and it is the most important moral and ethical norm for Chinese people.It has a very important position in Chinese history.The pre-Qin period was an important period of filial piety thinking and development.After the accumulation of filial piety concepts in the Xia and Shang dynasties and filial piety in the Western Zhou Dynasty,Confucius took the lead in integrating filial piety into the Confucian ideology.The combination of his filial piety thought and benevolent thought listed the specific content of filial piety,which was the beginning of the connection between Confucian filial piety thought and politics.Zeng Zi’s filial piety thought is an in-depth interpretation of Confucius’ filial piety thought.He expanded the scope of filial piety,held that filial piety is the foundation of all morality,advocated filial piety,respected the "respect for oneself," and put forward that filial piety is bad and filial piety is practiced The theory of Confucian filial piety is more systematic and theoretical.Mencius’ s filial piety thought also inherited the essence of the predecessors.It also linked filial piety with the theory of good nature and the politics of the kingly way,and pointed out the standard of filial piety.Xunzi completed the transformation of filial piety to loyalty and filial piety.His filial piety thought was biased to serve politics on the basis of inheriting his predecessors,and was closely connected with etiquette,which had a profound impact on later generations.This article attempts to start with the filial piety thoughts of several representatives of the pre-Qin Confucianism,organize the development track of filial piety thoughts,and analyze the significance of the filial piety thoughts of the pre-Qin Confucianism to the lack of modern filial piety culture.