When your parents are alive, you will not travel far away. If you want to travel far away, you must tell where you are going.

From: "The Analects of Confucius·Liren" compiled by disciples and re-disciples of Confucius during the Warring States Period

"Fang" refers to "a certain place, direction, and more importantly, the "method". Meaning When your parents are in good health and you go out, you should let your parents know that your place is safe. If your parents need to be taken care of and you need to go out, you must arrange a "method" to take care of your parents as a filial piety. "There is "prescription".

Extended information:

As a Confucian classic, "The Analects" has broad, profound and all-encompassing content. There are three main thoughts in "The Analects" that are both independent and closely related. Interdependent categories: ethical and moral category - benevolence, social and political category - propriety, cognitive methodology category - golden mean.

Ren, first of all, is a true state deep in the human heart, a compromise between truth and truth. The ultimate state of benevolence must be good, and the overall state of truth and goodness is the category of benevolence established by Confucius, and then elaborates etiquette as a reasonable social relationship and norms for dealing with others that adapt to benevolence and express benevolence. The systematic methodological principle of "Golden Mean" is the ideological core of "The Analects of Confucius".