Filial Piety in China

• Mark
  7:34 pm on February 6th, 2008 1

  Note to self…make sure to hook son up with Gong Li….

• Sonagi
  8:44 pm on February 6th, 2008 2

  Isn’t there a “heartwarming” Korean folk tale or morals story about a filial woman who breastfed her father or father-in-law and let her baby starve?

• nankingcherry
  4:37 am on February 7th, 2008 3

  Although I am not aware of the Korean folk tale, there were a few actual incidents printed on some pre-World War-2 newspapers(preserved) in Japan. Those articles show one common pattern: An ethnic Korean woman and her ethinc Korean husband were arrested by the local police. The woman murdered her little kid, and she served the bleeding liver to her husband or father-in-law who had been suffering from a Hansen’s disease. Back then many Koreans believed that sickness falls on them because they neglected their filial piety to the family or ancestors, and the grudge-ful spirits would haunt the descendants. The desperate leprosy diseased ones hung on a common belief that eating a fresh liver would cure leprosy particuraly when the liver was derived from a pious heart and mind.

• CPT KIM
  11:35 am on February 7th, 2008 4

  Even in the American Classic like “Grapes of Wrath” has one of the baby’s mother who breast feed to dying older male family member who was so weak to drink it himself.

 

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