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 * One paragraph response to the Confucianism Reading

The reading presented many different cases where filial piety came into play, and showed different stories about how filial piety was acted out. After reading the text, I think that there were so many things expected of a person, all placed under filial piety; children had to care about their parents, love their parents, obey their parents, withstand all punishments, think about their parents’ feelings, and so many more things. I felt that Confucianism really emphasized interpersonal relationships, and had clear expectations for each and every one of the five relationships, maybe even more; it made me feel like they were very keen on having a clear, organized, and humane social order and community. From the stories presented, I could tell that the sense of self-sacrifice for one’s parents was very strong; I felt that the children were expected to sacrifice their own bodies and belongings for the better of their parents or elders. From this reading, I began to think that filial piety was a strict expectation for the children; they had to give up everything they had for the good of their parents. I thought that filial piety was more about loving your parents, but it was more than that; it was more about showing your feelings through actions, such as “allowing mosquitoes to bite him” to avoid them biting his mother. ||