All virtues are filial first. What does kindness mean?

Filial piety is the first of all virtues, which means that children's behavior should not go against the wishes of parents, family elders and ancestors, and children should repay their parents for their parenting. From the modern work "Night Talk Around the Furnace" in the late Qing Dynasty.

Filial piety is the expression of stable ethical relations. Secondary dock is a kind of crow. According to legend, it can feed its mother back. Feeding back refers to feeding the mother when the black chicks grow up. From the second fold of the Yuan Dynasty's anonymous "Xuebao Acknowledges Mother": "As the saying goes, a horse has a rein, a dog has that grass shop, trampling on the street, and kindness feeds back."

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The definition of Erya, China's earliest book to explain the meaning of words, is: "Being kind to parents is filial piety". Jia Yi's New Book of Han Dynasty is defined as "filial piety". Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty explained in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Those who do good to their parents are from the old province, from the child, from the child to the old. ''

Xu Shen believes that the word "filial piety" is a knowing word composed of the word "old" and the word "child". It can be seen from this that the word "filial piety" in ancient China has the same meaning as "parents are good", so filial piety is a reward for children's kindness to their parents.