Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China: Family, State, and Native Place by Cong Ellen Zhang

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 486-492
Author(s):  
Valerie Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Northern Song ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Family State

Northern Song Conceptions of the Imperial Temple and Temple Sacrifices

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-60
Author(s):  
Hiu Yu Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Northern Song

Chapter 2 introduces Song ritual institutions, ritual officials, and early Song ritual controversies over fraternal succession and the discourse of filial piety. It emphasizes the key position of the Commission of Ritual Affairs in making Song court rituals. It also reveals the growing interest of Northern Song emperors in the arrangements of the Imperial Temple and the active role they performed in ritual debates and reforms, as well as their political concerns on the Imperial Temple.

Government Ethics Textbooks in Late Meiji Japan

1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 823-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilbur M. Fridell
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Filial Obligation ◽  
German State ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Government Ethics ◽  
Family State

AbstractAs one means of uniting the people behind the new regime, Japanese government authorities employed a series of ethics (shushin) textbooks in the schools during the Meiji period (1868–1912) and beyond. With the appearance of fully government-produced texts in 1903 and their first revision in 1910, ideological patterns were established which were influential down to the last revision of the series in 1941. The 1910 revision fused old and new socio-ideological patterns and values under the designation of “national morals,” retrospectively known as the “family state” (kazoku kokka) ideology. This was comprised of (1) a German “state organism” theory of state sovereignty, as the intellectual superstructure; (2) Confucian-like familyism, as the ethical base; and (3) ancient Shinto imperial mythology as the religious sanction. Progression of thought in the textbooks placed crucial emphasis on the extension of loyalty from home and parents to nation and emperor through the absolute equation of filial piety and emperor-loyalty. The frondine soldier, however, found difficulty reconciling the call to die for the emperor with his filial obligation to live for his parents. This may be one reason why in successive revisions (especially 1941) the familial approach to national loyalty was downgraded in favor of a direct national-imperial appeal.

Ritual, Rejuvenation Practices, and the Experience of Aging in Early Chinese Religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ori Tavor
Keyword(s):  
Aging Process ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Chinese Religion ◽  
Human History ◽  
Early China ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
Lasting Influence ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Scientific Advances

Scientific advances in the field of biomedicine have fundamentally changed the ways in which we think about our bodies. Disease, aging, and even death, are no longer seen as inevitable realities but as obstacles that can be controlled, and in some cases even reversed, by technological means. The current discourse, however, can be enriched by an investigation of the various ways in which the aging process was perceived and explained throughout human history. In this article, I argue that in early China, the experience of aging and the challenges and anxieties it produced played a constitutive role in the shaping of religious culture. Drawing on a variety of medical, philosophical, and liturgical sources, I outline two models of aging: one that presented aging, and especially the loss of virility, as an undesirable but solvable condition that can be reversed with the aid of various rejuvenation techniques, and a more socially conscious model that depicted aging as a process of gradual social ascension, a natural but fundamentally unalterable condition that should be accepted, marked, and even celebrated through ritual. I conclude by demonstrating the legacy and lasting influence of these models on two of the most fundamental tenets of Chinese religion: the pursuit of longevity and the ideal of filial piety.

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