"Filial piety is the first of all virtues" is a famous saying. Filial piety is an ancient virtue. Thousands of years later, "filial piety" has gradually become one of the standards of conduct for the Chinese nation. Below I have compiled for you many idioms and explanations about describing filial piety. Idioms and explanations describing filial piety 1

1. Turn filial piety into loyalty: refers to turning filial piety to loyalty to the monarch.

2. Colorful clothes to entertain relatives: Legend has it that in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was an old Caizi who was very filial. Even when he was seventy years old, he would sometimes wear colorful clothes and pretend to be a child to make his parents laugh. Later, it was used as an allusion to be filial to parents.

3. Filial piety and filial piety: refers to being filial to parents, respecting elders, and working hard in farming.

4. Enter filial piety and leave fraternity: It means to be filial to your parents when you go home, and to respect your elder brothers when you go out. Also known as 'bringing filial piety to younger brother'.

5. Sons are filial and their fathers are kind: Children are filial and parents are kind. Same as "the father is kind and the son is filial".

6. Mother is kind and son is filial: Mother is kind and loving to her children, and children are filial to their parents. This is the moral style advocated by feudal society.

7. Shifting filial piety to loyalty: refers to turning filial piety to loyalty to the monarch. Same as "turning filial piety into loyalty".

8. Laolai entertains relatives: showing filial piety to parents.

9. Filial sons and grandsons: refers to sons who are filial to their parents and virtuous grandsons.

10. The affair of the black bird: The black bird: According to ancient legend, the young bird can feed the old bird in return. It is a metaphor for the filial piety of serving and respecting relatives.

11. Filial piety is not lacking: lack: lack. It refers to never forgetting the filial piety towards parents.

12. Father is kind and son is filial: father: refers to parents; son: children. Parents are kind to their children, and children are filial to their parents.

13. Filial sons and loving grandchildren: descendants who are filial to their ancestors.

14. Wang Xiang lies on the ice: Wang Xiang lies on the ice and asks for fish to serve his mother. It is a metaphor for children to be filial to their parents.

15. Filial piety, loyalty and trust: Be filial to your parents, respect your elders, be loyal to your monarch, and win the trust of your friends. This refers to the moral standards advocated by feudal society.

16. Ciwu returns to feed: Ci: support. Feeding back: When the chick grows up, it feeds its mother with food in its mouth. It is a metaphor for children to repay their parents for their upbringing. Also known as "Ci Wu feeds back".

17. The love of crows: According to ancient legends, crows have the feeling of feeding back. Because it is a metaphor for filial piety in serving the elders.

18. Be filial and filial: Be filial to your parents when you go home, and respect your elder brothers when you go out.

19. Boyu Weeping Staff: Boyu: the name of a filial son in ancient times. Describes being extremely filial to parents.

20. Poor support and generous burial: refers to the fact that children do not fully support their parents during their lifetime, but hold large funerals after their parents die to show off their financial strength and filial piety. Idioms and explanations describing filial piety 2

1. Fan pillow and warm seat: describes being very filial to parents.

2. Filial piety moved heaven: It tells the story of Yu Shun’s filial piety that moved heaven. Describes being very filial to parents.

3. Deer's milk for relatives: It tells how a filial son risked his life and tried every means to obtain deer's milk to support his relatives.

4. A hundred miles loses a meter: Zilu, Confucius’s favorite disciple, was straightforward, brave and very filial. In his early years, his family was poor, so he often picked wild vegetables to make meals, but he carried rice home from hundreds of miles away to serve his parents.

5. Biting one’s finger and feeling sad: Zeng Shen went into the mountains to collect firewood. When guests came to the house, the mother was at a loss, so she bit her own finger with her teeth. Zeng Shen suddenly felt distressed. He quickly returned home with firewood on his back, knelt down and asked why. The mother said: "A guest has arrived unexpectedly. I will bite my finger to let you know."

6. Luyi Shunmu: Describes being very filial to one's parents.

7. Spring and Carp: It tells the filial piety of Jiang Shi and his wife in the Han Dynasty. Describes being very filial to parents.

8. Embracing oranges as a bereaved relative: Lu Ji hid two oranges in his arms and brought them to his elderly mother to eat. Describes being very filial to parents.

9. Fan pillow and warm quilt: describes being very filial to parents. Same as "fan pillow and warm seat".

10. Working as a servant to support your mother: Working as a servant to support your mother is one of the twenty-four filial piety. It tells the story of Jiang Ge, a native of Linzi, Qi State in the Eastern Han Dynasty. His father died when he was young, and he served his mother extremely filially.

11. Cleansing and drowning utensils: He serves his mother with utmost filial piety. Every night, he personally washes the utensils for his mother. He never forgets his responsibilities as a son.

12. Fill the mosquito with blood: Feed the mosquito with your own blood so that it will stop biting your parents. Describes children as very filial.

13. Worry after tasting excrement: Yu Qianlou, a native of the Southern Qi Dynasty, served as the magistrate of Xiaoling County. Less than ten days after I arrived in Chioling County, I suddenly felt frightened and sweating all over my body. I immediately resigned and returned home (premonition that something was going on at home). When I got home, I learned that my father had been seriously ill for two days. The doctor said: "If you want to know whether the condition is getting better or worse, just taste a little of the patient's feces. The bitter taste means it is a good thing." Qian Lou then tasted his father's feces and found that it tasted sweet, and he was very worried. At night, he knelt down to worship the Big Dipper, kowtowed and begged to die on his father's behalf.

14. The nurse is not lazy: Cui Shannan, a native of Boling in the Tang Dynasty. His great-grandmother, the eldest grandson, Mrs. Lao, is old and her teeth have completely fallen out. His grandmother, Mrs. Tang, came to the hall to feed her mother-in-law with her own milk every morning after taking a shower. Mrs. Sun, the eldest mother-in-law, has not eaten a grain of grain and has remained healthy for several years. Then one day he suddenly fell ill. He gathered the whole family together and made a vow: "I have nothing to repay my daughter-in-law for her kindness. I only hope that my grandson's daughter-in-law can respect her as she respects me."

15. Abandoning his official position to seek his mother: Zhu Shouchang, a Tianchang man in the Song Dynasty, was seven years old when his biological mother Liu was jealous of her aunt, so she refused to remarry anyone else. Mother and son have not been able to see each other for fifty years. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, Zhu Shouchang resigned from his post and rushed to Shaanxi. When he said goodbye to his family, he vowed never to return until he saw his mother. Later, they searched for her in Tongzhou, Shaanxi, and finally found her biological mother, and mother and son reunited happily. At this time, my mother was already in her seventies.