Judy

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In China, filial piety (hsiao) was a very important duty of all Chinese, a primary duty actually. Being a filial son or daughter meant absolute complete obedience to one's parents. More than the daughters, sons were very important. It was up to the son to perform ritual sacrifices for ancestors, passing the Civil Service Examinations, and the continue the family.
 * Filial Piety**

In a lot of Chinese folk tales, they are about the filial piety. For example in the first story the son was obedient to his step mother no matter how evil she was to him. The second story was about a boy who let the mosquitoes bite him all night and not his parents. The third story was about sacrificing his son for the sake of his mother. The fourth story was about a grown man who wore children's clothes and acted silly to amuse his parents. The fifth story was about a man who cried tears which made the bamboo grow for him to take to his mother in the winter. The last story was about a man of the Hanlin academy who would clean his mother's chamber-pot. Although these may seem like such small things, to parents this may mean the world to them.

In Korea, filiial piety is important as well. Even having the son giving absolute obedience to one's parents as well was the same. Although the daughter had a duty to give complete obediecne as well, like in China, they weren't as important. Now a days people still give the obedience, the filial piety, to one's parents although not as extremely as the ancient times.

8)	Write a short reflection of what you learned from these readings. With the benefit of hind site and knowledge of China and Japan, would Korea had been better off if it had “opened up to the west.” I think it might have been better if Korea had been a little more open and they had opened up to the west because if they had known the circumstances of Japan and China then they would have known better to allow the Western influence and become stronger. But I also think that they did well in not opening up to the Westerners because had they opened up they would have probably lose their identity and we wouldn’t be who we are today. Because Korea was having a hard time economically if someone was willing to help or influence them Korea would have probably taken it willingly or would have been forced to anyway.