What is the attitude towards ancient filial piety in Lu Xun's Twenty-four Filial Pieties?

Lu Xun is critical of Twenty-four Filial Pieties.

The article describes the author's feelings of reading Twenty-four Filial Pieties in childhood, and exposes the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal filial piety.

This paper emphatically analyzes the stories of filial piety, such as "Seeking carp on the ice", "Lao Lai entertaining relatives" and "Guo Ju burying children", and accuses this feudal filial piety of ignoring children's lives as "disgusting". "Although Guo Ju has filial piety, his behavior of killing children is against humanity, which is not in line with people's Confucian concept of' the nature of heaven and earth, the preciousness of people'.

Take ruthlessness as a discipline and slander the descendants of ancient religion. "Let's talk about Guo Ju buried son. Take a casual look at the Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures, and you will see words such as "selling your body to bury your father", "burying your son to serve your mother" and "crying bamboo shoots".

"Carving wood for relatives" and "Burying children for mothers" make people feel heartless; Superstitions such as "Xiaogan moves heaven", "lying on the ice for carp" and "crying bamboo shoots" are serious; "Worried about tasting shit" is disgusting. Filial piety is appropriate, pedantry is stupid, blind obedience is sad, and defending morality is hateful.

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Starting with the children's books at that time, this paper recalls the feelings of reading Twenty-four Filial Pieties in childhood and reveals the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal filial piety.

The stories of filial piety, such as "Seeking carp on the ice", "Old Lai entertaining relatives" and "Guo Ju burying children", are emphatically analyzed, accusing this feudal filial piety of ignoring children's lives, taking nausea as pleasure, "taking unkindness as a training, slandering ancient evils and teaching future generations ill". The work sharply criticized the tendency of opposing vernacular Chinese and advocating retro at that time.

In fact, the story of the dutiful son in Twenty-four Filial Pieties should be very touching. It is a pity that generations of people have covered it with silk and cosmetics, smearing the touching truth into a disgusting sitcom. Lu Xun wants to tell us through this article that filial piety is justified, pedantry is stupid, blind obedience is sad and defending morality is hateful.

How to advocate filial piety is still a question worthy of consideration and discussion for China people now. Those perfect gods who have been painstakingly "decorated" and worshipped and admired cannot touch people's hearts.

What really touches us ordinary people will always be those ordinary heroes, those who used to be cowardly, selfish and hesitant, but finally chose brave, persistent and determined people.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Twenty-four filial piety pictures