"All good deeds and filial piety come first" is from the Qing Dynasty book "Night Talks Around the Fireplace": "All good deeds and filial piety come first, while all evils are rooted in obscenity. If you are always kind and filial, you will not be able to tolerate anything that cannot be done under the sun."

The vernacular interpretation of this sentence: filial piety is the first among the good, and lechery is the source of evil. If one constantly harbors the mentality of benevolence, righteousness, and filial piety, one will be able to refrain from doing anything in the world that is not to be done.

The Night Talks Around the Furnace is a Confucian popular book written by Wang Yongbin, a famous literary critic of the Qing Dynasty. It is a commentary on the literary world of the time and before, people, events, articles and other segments, with a profound meaning.

Expanded Information

"All good deeds and filial piety are the first". As one of the traditional Chinese virtues, there are many moving stories of filial piety and respect for parents, loyalty to the king and love for the country in Chinese history, which are widely talked about and widely circulated, and these stories, which have become the mother of cultivating traditional Chinese virtues.

In ancient times, filial piety was considered an important criterion for measuring a person's character. The biographies of people who were written into the official history of the country also talked about filial piety. For example, the Song History - Yue Fei biography mentioned: "Fei to filial piety, his mother stayed in Hebei, sent people to visit, welcome back. Mother has chronic diseases, medicine and bait must be pro. Mother died, the water pulp does not enter the mouth for three days." The theme of filial piety has also been a central theme in many books throughout the ages. So much so that Tseng Kuo-fan of the Qing Dynasty said, "Reading all the books in the world is nothing but a word of filial piety."

From the continuous development of history, we can see that the traditional culture of filial piety plays an irreplaceable role in promoting the harmony of the country and the harmony of human relationships. Mr. Sun Yat-sen once said, "Nowadays, the most civilized countries in the world, when it comes to the word of filial piety, have not spoken so completely as China. So the word filial piety is even more can't do without ...... to be able to speak the word loyalty and filial piety to the extreme, the country will naturally can be strong."

Filial piety, rooted in traditional culture, plays an important role as a powerful spiritual and cultural force, both for individuals and for society. In the great practice of leading the Chinese people in the cause of revolution, construction and reform, the Chinese ****producers have critically inherited the culture of filial piety in traditional Chinese culture.

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