The main content of the Twenty-Four Filial Piety Pictures in "Morning Blossoms Picked Up at Dusk"

First of all, a brief summary: "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" comes from Lu Xun's collection of retrospective essays "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk". Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk is a collection of essays, of which Twenty-Four Filial Piety Pictures is just one article. Lu Xun wrote this article "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" which can be understood as his reflections.

This article starts from the children's books of the time, recalls the feelings of reading "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" as a child, and criticizes this kind of feudal filial piety that ignores the lives of children and treats "sickness as fun" and "unreasonable". Love is the moral code, which slanders the ancients and corrupts the teachings of future generations."

The real author of "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" is: Guo Jujing of the Yuan Dynasty. The main content is a compilation of the stories of 24 filial sons in ancient times, compiled into "Twenty-Four Filial Piety".

So what does the "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" in "Picking Up Flowers in the Morning and Evening" want to express?

"Twenty-Four Filial Piety Pictures" - The so-called "Twenty-Four Filial Piety Pictures" is a book telling the story of the twenty-four filial sons in ancient China, with pictures. The main purpose is to promote feudal filial piety. The feeling of reading "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" focuses on the analysis of filial piety stories such as "Lying on the Ice to Seek Carp", "Lao Lai Entertaining His Relatives", and "Guo Ju Burying His Son".

Criticizes this kind of feudal filial piety for disregarding the lives of children, treating "sickness as fun" and "treating ruthlessness as a moral code, slandering the ancients and educating future generations." The work was against the vernacular and advocated The retro tendency was sharply criticized. The so-called "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" is a book that tells the story of the twenty-four filial sons in ancient China. Its main purpose is to promote feudal filial piety. But among them, "Lao Lai entertains his relatives" and "Guo Ju buries his son" and "Taste manure and worry" are outrageous.

Looking through "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety", words like these come into view: "Sell your body to bury your father", "Bury your children to serve your mother", "Weeping bamboo shoots grow". "Carving wood to serve relatives" and "burying children to serve mothers" make people feel callous; "filial piety moves heaven", "lying on the ice to seek carps", "crying bamboos and growing bamboo shoots" are such feudal cannibalistic ethics that really make people feel cold and heartless. Feel pathetic! ?

Not all the beliefs and ideas of the feudal era should be inherited or abandoned. But filial piety is the first of all virtues, and how to understand it correctly is the most correct. As a country with a history of five thousand years of civilization, China should inherit and carry forward it! But such foolish filial piety is sad, and the defenders in sheep's clothing who defend these are even more shameful! ?

"Filial piety comes first among all virtues" is the basic moral thought of the ancients. "Twenty-Four Pictures of Filial Piety" is a traditional children's book that promotes the Confucian concept of "filial piety". Mr. Lu Xun’s article was written at a time when the trend of “opposing vernacular literature” was in conflict.

The author writes with excitement, runs through bitter satire, denounces the hypocrisy of feudal filial piety, and expresses his love and hate. This is not to deny Lu Xun's views. Indeed, New China needs talents like him who dare to speak and act, and it is indeed eager for a voice to fight against feudal cruelty.