I am disappointed because, through the stories of filial piety such as Twenty-four Filial Pieties, Lao Lai's hospitality to relatives and Guo Juan's burial of children, we can see that this feudal filial piety ignores children's lives, delights in nausea, slanders the ancients and teaches future generations badly.
The essay "Twenty-four Filial Pieties" in Morning Flowers was written in 1926 shortly after the "March 18th" tragedy, when the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary struggles were fierce. In order to maintain the reactionary rule, the Beiyang warlord government suppressed the revolutionary movement crazily on the one hand, and set off a retro countercurrent in the ideological and cultural fields on the other hand, and the dregs such as "Twenty-four filial piety pictures" and "Hundred filial piety pictures" emerged in society.
Writing background:
Starting with the children's books at that time, this paper recalls the feelings of reading Twenty-four Filial Pieties in childhood and reveals the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal filial piety. The work sharply criticized the tendency of opposing vernacular Chinese and advocating retro at that time.
In fact, the stories of dutiful sons in Twenty-four Filial Pieties should be very touching. It is a pity that generations of people have covered it with silk and cosmetics, smearing the touching truth into a disgusting sitcom. Lu Xun wants to tell us through this article that filial piety is justified, pedantry is stupid, blind obedience is sad and defending morality is hateful.
How to advocate filial piety is still a question worthy of consideration and discussion for China people now. Those perfect gods who have been painstakingly "decorated" and worshipped and admired cannot touch people's hearts.
What really touches us ordinary people will always be those ordinary heroes, those who used to be cowardly, selfish and hesitant, but finally chose brave, persistent and determined people.