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The Classic of Filial Piety
Short enough to memorise, and memorised by generations of Chinese children, the Classic of Filial Piety presents Confucius teaching his disciple Zengzi that devotion to parents is the root of every virtue and the foundation of good government. In eighteen brief chapters it describes what filial piety means for the Son of Heaven, the feudal lords, ministers, scholars and common people; how it extends to serving the ruler and ordering the state; how a son should remonstrate with a father in the wrong; and how the dead should be mourned. Few books shaped East Asian family life and political language so deeply. This complete new English translation renders all eighteen chapters in clear modern English, an ideal companion to the Analects and the Classic of Loyalty.
