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filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
HSK 7-9
filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents
HSK 7-9
filial son
filial piety and fraternal duty
the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
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filial piety or obedience / mourning apparel
Xiaojing (Classic of Filial Piety)
unquestioning filial piety
filial piety (a Confucian obligation) / respect and obedience to one's parents
the Thirteen Confucian Classics, namely: Book of Songs 詩經|诗经, Book of History 尚書|尚书, Rites of Zhou 周禮|周礼, Rites and Ceremonies 儀禮|仪礼, Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记, Book of Changes 易經|易经, Mr Zuo's Annals 左傳|左传, Mr Gongyang's Annals 公羊傳|公羊传, Mr Guliang's Annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传, The Analects 論語|论语, Erya 爾雅|尔雅, Classic of Filial Piety 孝經|孝经, Mencius 孟子
to support one's parents in their old age / to show filial piety / to to repay / to return a favor
at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
to do one's filial duty
of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom)
to be forever filial (idiom)
to cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom) / filial thigh-cutting
mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety
lit. the solicitude of the crow (who provides for his old parent)(idiom) / fig. filial piety
(literary) (of a lamb) to kneel to suckle at the breast (used as a metaphor for filial piety)
to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety) / to suck up to sb; to kiss ass
funeral stick (held by the son as a sign of filial piety)
seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)
at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period


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