Main Contents and Themes of Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures

Main Contents and Themes of Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures

Twenty-four filial piety pictures are from Mr. Lu Xun's collection of reminiscence essays, "Morning Flowers Picking Up in the Evening". "Filial piety" is the core of Confucian ethics, the moral criterion for maintaining family relations in China for thousands of years, and the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. In Yuan Dynasty, Guo compiled the stories of 24 filial sons in ancient times into Twenty-four Filial Piety Classics. Later printed books were all equipped with pictures, commonly known as "24 filial piety pictures", which became popular reading materials to promote filial piety. Filial piety is the essence of China traditional culture. The following are the main contents and themes of 24 pictures of filial piety that I arranged for you, for reference only, I hope it will help you!

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Character introduction:

Fan Zhongyue, a librarian of Hubei Literature and History Research Institute, a member of Xiling Printing Society, a member of China Calligraphers Association, a calligraphy professional tutor of Huazhong Normal University, and a consultant of Three Gorges Printing Society. He used to be vice chairman of China Hard Pen Calligraphers Association, deputy secretary-general of Donghu Printing Society, editor-in-chief of Calligraphy Newspaper, member and secretary of its social committee. At the age of 30, he studied calligraphy, seal cutting and philology from Mr. Gu Youquan, a famous calligrapher in Han Dynasty. He is good at seal cutting, Cao Zhang and seal cutting. Gu Zhuo, a big seal character, is quiet and simple, with tough strokes, clear and round ideas and excellent kung fu. In recent years, I have devoted myself to Chu Jinwen and achieved initial results, which are refreshing. Cao Zhang, elegant and upright, elegant, fresh and smart. Seal cutting, born in Qin and Han dynasties, pursues ancient seal cutting, which is simple or elegant, simple and far-reaching.

In the past twenty years, fourteen series of calligraphy seal cutting tools, such as Cao Zhang, Zhuanshu, Jinwen, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Hanyin, Zhuanshuan of Birds and Insects, and Liu Ti Calligraphy Dictionary, have been compiled and published successively, which have exerted a wide influence in the book world. In 2006, The Series of Calligraphy and Seal Cutting Tools won the second Lanting Award of China Book Association.

Fan Zhongyue, who has been busy for several months, took a long breath with the newly published anthology of Twenty-four Filial Pieties by Fan Zhongyue. "I'm not finished yet. I won't finish until 12." What he deeply misses at the age of 70 is Fan Zhongyue's "Twenty-four Filial Pieties" calligraphy and seal cutting art exhibition and the national moral model of filial piety and respect for the elderly held in the Art Museum of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts on July 12. In addition to Fan Zhongyue's excellent calligraphy and seal cutting, woodcut ink painting Chen Shaomei's Twenty-four Filial Pieties, Lao Yan in Twenty-four Filial Pieties and Gu Mo in Twenty-four Filial Pieties are also rare treasures in the world.

As a disciple of the famous calligrapher Gu Youquan, Fan Zhongyue endowed the era connotation of "twenty-four filial piety" with a single stroke, a single knife and a pure heart. "Cultural people should keep pace with the times and extend the positive content of the twenty-four filial piety to the moral level. His most proud work, Cao Zhang, is the first national moral model: "Great love is silent. It is you who interpret the true meaning of life with great love on earth; With the highest filial piety in the world, it shows Paramore's courage. No matter how old the world is, no matter what changes have taken place, it is your heart, which has witnessed the morality of Chinese civilization for five thousand years. "

Filial piety means "being old to me and being old to others".

Living in the ancestral hall of a big family since childhood, separated from parents, this kind of memory with temperature has been accompanied by the urban life written by Fan Zhongyue. He is the seventh child in the family, and his mother died at the age of 100. A few years ago, my old mother wanted to watch color TV, but there were differences at home. Some said, "At this age, watch color TV." In order to make his mother happy in the last few years of her life, he persuaded her family to meet her demands.

A piece of news he saw with his wife strengthened his determination to make a special topic on filial piety culture. "China has 1. 300 million elderly people, many elderly people can only see their children once a year. " Fan Zhongyue is lucky. He can often get together with his children and grandchildren and live a happy life.

Although the National People's Congress is strengthening the care of the whole society for the elderly through legislative means, Fan Zhongyue still hopes to attract people's attention to filial piety through richer forms, such as calligraphy and seal cutting. "Some people say that twenty-four filial piety is feudal dross, because they were not born in that era and could not understand the emotions in extreme environments. Of course, some of these stories are elements added by the people, which is so legendary. But most of the content can inject positive significance into today's society. "

Fan Zhongyue is preparing another book, Twenty-four Filial Pieties. In that book, in addition to calligraphy and seal cutting works, he will also add his personal new understanding of the twenty-four filial piety. "Catch the Tiger to Save the Father" tells the story of Yang Xiang, a teenager, who risked his life to fight with the tiger when his father fell into the tiger's jaws. His courage is commendable. "In real life, we should encourage children to take responsibility." He also cited another story of twenty-four filial piety, "deer milk waits on relatives." "As children, in addition to food, clothing, housing and transportation, we should try our best to satisfy what our parents want to eat and play. Otherwise, it is the biggest regret in life that children want to raise and can't stay. "

Pushing the story of twenty-four filial piety to a higher moral level is what Fan Zhongyue got from the first national moral model selection. There are several moral models, such as Yang, who serve the parents of his late husband's ex-wife and are not necessarily good to his own biological parents, which reminds Fan Zhongyue of "a sense of security and a sense of worthiness", which is the meaning of filial piety. He was delighted to find that the story of being awarded the moral model of "filial piety for the elderly and loving parents" was much higher than the filial piety of "kind parents" in Twenty-four Filial Pieties.

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On Fan Zhongyue's desk, twenty seals are lying quietly in the box. Every seal tells a story of filial piety, and every seal has an imprint. These 24 seals are Fan Zhongyue's "great efforts". Take the story of selling one's body to bury one's father as an example. People in China say that "it is safe to be buried". In order to better show Yong Dong's "great filial piety", Fan Zhongyue decided to bury his father. Yong Dong betrayed himself and finally buried his father in a coffin. The word "burial" is a fake "burial" in the first issue of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The word "burial" comes from the people in the well, and the shape of "well" means coffin. Even if outsiders see which side has the seal of artistic creation, they will marvel at the pictographic function of China characters.

What is filial piety? Filial piety is tolerance: tolerance of the "garbage" that the elderly are always reluctant to throw away; Tolerate the nagging of the elderly; Tolerate the old man's drooling and snot. Filial piety is reward: Mother's Day is a bunch of carnations; It's a bottle of good wine on my father's birthday; It's soup and medicine before bed. Filial piety is patient company: listen to the old man patiently; Patiently explain to the elderly; Persuade the old man patiently. Filial piety is a kind of deception: 100 clothes cost more than a few dollars, so it is better to tell the elderly that they only spent a few tens of dollars. Filial piety often goes home to see: go home and cook a delicious meal for parents.

In my spare time, I came across the book "Twenty-four Filial Pieties" while browsing my friends' space, and I was deeply touched after reading it! "Twenty-four Filial Pieties" is called "Selected Poems of Twenty-four Filial Pieties", which was compiled by Guo in Yuan Dynasty according to the filial stories of twenty-four filial sons from different angles, different environments and different experiences. Because most of the later prints were accompanied by pictures, they were also called "Twenty-four filial piety pictures".

Throughout the book "Twenty-four Filial Pieties", it can be said that the dutiful son gave up his life for his parents, for his parents, for his parents and for his wife and children. Even his own life. It is completely selfless filial piety to give up one's life and forget death.

Wu Meng swallowed mosquitoes until he was full of blood, Wang Xiang slept on the ice for carp, Yang Xiang caught tigers to save his father, Ding Lan carved wood as his mother, and Guo Ju buried his children as his mother. All these are worthy of our inheritance and development-the spirit of loving, caring for and serving his parents sincerely.

Today, filial piety requires not only the body of adoptive parents, but also their hearts and aspirations. How should a dutiful son be filial? Confucius told us the specific methods from five aspects: birth, support, illness, funeral, burial and sacrifice.

First of all, "you will be respected if you are alive." "ambition" means doing it wholeheartedly and doing it satisfactorily. In other words, you should be sincere to your parents, completely sincere and unreserved. Respecting parents hypocritically and sincerely is called "respect for them". The second one is: "Raising is happiness". Filial piety has three meanings: the body of adoptive parents, the heart of adoptive parents and the ambition of adoptive parents. The key is to make parents happy, don't worry, don't worry. The third is: "Disease causes anxiety". That is, parents are sick, children should be concerned, be warm and cold, check and treat their parents as soon as possible, and recover as soon as possible. The fourth kind is: "If you lose it, you will lose it.". In other words, when parents die, children should repay their kindness and do their best to mourn. This is a natural expression of children's feelings, but we should also pay attention to condolences. Fifth, "strict sacrifice". It means that after parents are buried, they should make regular sacrifices, be solemn, and remember the kindness of their parents and ancestors.

If a person has done well in five aspects: birth, support, illness, mourning and offering sacrifices to his parents, he can be said to be a dutiful son.

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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. 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.

The so-called Twenty-four Filial Pieties is a book that tells the story of twenty-four filial sons in ancient China. Its main purpose is to promote feudal filial piety. However, among them, "Lao Lai entertains relatives", "Guo Ju buries children" and "fear of tasting dung" are outrageous. Let's talk about Guo Ju's buried son first. It is said that there was a man named Guo Ju in the Jin Dynasty who was originally very rich. After his father died, he divided his property into two parts and divided it between his two younger brothers. He raised his mother alone and was extremely filial to her. Later, the family became poorer and his wife gave birth to a boy. Guo Ju is worried that raising the child will inevitably affect his mother's support. He discussed with his wife: "The son can be reborn, but the mother can't be resurrected after death. It is better to bury his son and save money to support his mother. " The couple took their son out and dug a hole to bury him. Xing Hao dug up an altar of gold to save his son from death.

Although Guo Ju has filial piety, his behavior of killing children is against human nature, which does not conform to the Confucian concept of "the nature of heaven and earth is precious to human beings". Seemingly filial, but actually cruel. In ancient times, some people sacrificed their lives to pray for God to treat their parents, while others cut meat to satisfy their parents' desire to eat meat. Today, some people offer five zang-organs to treat their parents, but few people kill them. I want to kill my son in order to save food. One is against my mother's love for her grandson, and the other is against my mother's good. Therefore, some people later called this filial piety "foolish filial piety". "

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 justified, pedantry is stupid, blind obedience is sad, and defending morality is hateful.

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. Just like a woman, no matter how beautiful, wearing too much powder on her face will only make people feel sick.

Those perfect gods who have been painstakingly "decorated" and worshipped and admired cannot touch people's hearts. What really touches us ordinary people who are struggling between daily necessities and daily necessities are always those ordinary heroes, those who used to be cowardly, selfish and hesitant, but finally chose brave, persistent and determined people.