confucianism+response+Nathan+Cho

In Confucianism, filial piety was the most important duty for everybody, but sons and their wives were the most restricted people by their parents and the laws of confucianism. Filial piety is a complete obedience to the parents and elders and taking the best possible care of them. This is basically like living in prison or sacrificing yourself to them for their sake because ,in Confucianist societies, you are obliged to follow the idea of filial piety during their lifetime. The Confucianist society was too strict that most people had no identity of themselves and hope. The Confucianism took away all their dreams and identity. For example, continuing the family line was important duty especially for every eldest son because they were the ones who inherited everything from their parents. Because of that, no matter what, sons had to bear a child from their wives or adopt a child from somewhere else. If the first wife failed to continue the family line, then the husband will possibly get the second wife to bear a child. After that, probably, there won't be any attention and care for the first wife from the husband, mother-in-law, and other people because she failed it. This is how the wives or women lost their identities from the whole Confucianist society by failing to continue the family line in one's family. Also, there wasn't any real time for men and women to share real love because the society was too strict and all they cared about was maintaining the family line.