Source: The Classic of Filial Piety, c. 100 BCE.
Children are loyal and serve their parents, whom they love and cherish equally. Wives are loyal and serve their husbands, whom they love and cherish and obey. Sons are loyal and serve their father and mother; younger sons defer to older sons, who carry on the family name. Daughters are loyal and serve their father; in the absence of a father, they serve their elder brother. Within the family, the father rules supreme. Within the nation, all people support, serve, and obey the emperor, the father of the people. One break in the chain of loyalty can endanger the whole.
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Our body, skin, and hair are all received from our parents; we dare not injure them. This is the first priority in filial duty. To establish oneself in the world and practice the Way; to uphold one’s good name for posterity and give glory to one’s father and mother– this is the completion of filial duty. Thus filiality begins with service to parents, continues in service to the ruler, and ends with establishing oneself in the world [and becoming an exemplary person].



Document B Question: Based on this excerpt, how would you define filial piety?