{"collection":"Confucian Documents","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_bfd_bfd04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_bfd_bfd04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cfu_bfd_bfd04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bfd/bfd04.htm","summary":"THE MEANING OF FILIAL DUTY\nOnce upon a time Confucius was sitting in his study, having his disciple Ts\u00eang Ts\u2019an to attend upon him. He asked Ts\u00eang Ts\u2019an: \"Do you know by what virtue and power the good Emperors of old made the world peaceful, the people to live in harmony with one another, the inferior contented under the control of their superiors?\" To this Ts\u00eang Ts\u2019an, rising from his seat, replied: \"I do not know this, for I am not clever.\" Then said Confucius: \"The duty of children to their\u2026","tags":["Confucian Filial Piety","Hsiao Ching","Wisdom of the East Series"],"text":null,"title":"The Book of Filial Duty: The Doctrine of Filial Duty: Chapter I: The Meaning of Filial Duty","tradition":"Confucian Documents","translated_text":null,"word_count":261}