filial piety
Honoring one's parents
Filial piety is dutiful respect and care for one's parents and ancestors, a virtue central to Confucian ethics and East Asian cultures.
The concept extends beyond mere obedience to include honoring parents in life and death, maintaining family reputation, and continuing the family line: Filial piety required him to return home and care for his aging mother.
Regard with honor
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- esteemFavorable opinion of worth
- admirationDeep respect felt
homage · deference · gratitude · acknowledgment · appreciation · obeisance · tribute · regard
Required task or commitment
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- caregivingAttending to dependents
- serviceAid or maintenance
compliance · deference · support · provision · eldercare · devotion · loyalty · faithfulness
Those from whom one descends
- parentsMother and father
- eldersSenior community members
- grandparentsAncestors once removed
- lineageDescent from progenitors
patriarch · matriarch · kinship · bloodline · forebears · clan · household · generations
Religious devotion to lineage
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
offerings · shrines · memorial · mourning · funeral rites · grave tending · Confucianism · joss paper
respect
Regard with honor
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- esteemFavorable opinion of worth
admiration · homage · deference · gratitude · acknowledgment · appreciation · obeisance · tribute · regard · courtesy
obligation
Required task or commitment
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- caregivingAttending to dependents
service · compliance · deference · support · provision · eldercare · devotion · loyalty · faithfulness · diligence
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
- parentsMother and father
- eldersSenior community members
- grandparentsAncestors once removed
lineage · patriarch · matriarch · kinship · bloodline · forebears · clan · household · generations · descendants
ancestor veneration
Religious devotion to lineage
- ritesFormal ceremonial acts
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
ceremonies · offerings · shrines · memorial · mourning · funeral rites · grave tending · Confucianism · joss paper · cultural values
- family bondslove, parent-child bond, trust, sibling bond, loyalty
- ChinaBeijing, Shanghai, Great Wall, Yellow River, Chinese calligraphy
- Chinese cultureConfucianism, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing, Chinese New Year, Daoism
- East AsiaChina, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Korea
- East Asian Culturechopsticks, yin and yang, tea ceremony, origami, qi
- Asian customsbowing, chopsticks, tea ceremony, red envelopes, respect for elders
filial pietyparental neglect
Failing to care for dependents
elder abuse · patricide · matricide · parental rejection · ingratitude
filial pietyradical individualism
Belief in absolute personal sovereignty
self-actualization · personal autonomy · anti-authoritarianism · egalitarianism · youth culture