"Filial Piety in Form"and"True Filial Piety":Filial Piety in Novels of the Wei and Jin Dynasties
Following"to rule the world with filial piety"of the Han Dynasty,the Wei and Jin Dynasties also highly valued filial piety culture from ruler to civilians,and constantly advocated and practiced filial piety.Boosted by talking about the custom,filial piety in form with purpose,dramatic properties and ritual process was brought into being.At the same time,the true filial piety following the inner real feelings of filial piety accordingly occurred.For example,Ruan Ji,Wang Rong and the others resisted to hypocrisy from filial piety in form,and attacked on evaluating ethos and feudal ethical code.The existence of filial piety in form and true filial piety show that filial piety was distorted and tooled in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,distorting the human nature and emotion.It resulted in false filial piety,foolish filial piety and other bad atmosphere,greatly influencing politics,the society and other aspects.
novels of the Wei and Jin Dynastiesculture of filial pietyShi Shuo Xin Yu