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to show filial respect / to give presents (to one's elders or superiors) / to support one's aged parents
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filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety
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filial piety or obedience / mourning apparel
to do one's filial duty
filial son
Xiaoyi, county-level city in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
filial piety (a Confucian obligation) / respect and obedience to one's parents
filial piety (Confucian virtue) / to be a good son or daughter
Xiaochang county in Xiaogan 孝感, Hubei
Xiaonan district of Xiaogan city 孝感市, Hubei
xiaolian, two examination subjects in Han, later a single subject in Ming and Qing / successful second degree candidate
to observe mourning for one's parents
a condolence visit
mourning clothes
to wear mourning garb / to be in mourning
Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, a World Heritage site
to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披麻帶孝|披麻带孝
filial piety and fraternal duty
mourning garment
mourning dress
unfilial
at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
Duke Xiao of Qin, 秦國|秦国, ruled 361-338 BC during the Warring States Period
unquestioning filial piety
Ken Zhu (1979-), Taiwanese singer and actor
to visit friends to thank them after a funeral
Xiaonan district of Xiaogan city 孝感市, Hubei
variant of 戴孝
Xiaoyi, county-level city in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
Xiaogan, prefecture-level city in Hubei Province 湖北省
to be forever filial (idiom)
benevolent father, filial son (idiom) / natural love between parents and children
Zeng Xiaogu (1873-1937), actor and pioneer of Chinese drama in New Culture style
of all virtues filial piety is most important (idiom)
the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty
Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends
Fei Xiaotong (1910-2005), Chinese sociologist
there are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst (from Mencius 孟子)
King Xiaocheng of Zhao 趙國|赵国, reigned 266-245 BC
Xiaochang county in Xiaogan 孝感, Hubei
Xiaojing (Classic of Filial Piety)
Empress Xiaoshengxian (1693-1777), consort of Emperor Yongzheng 雍正 and mother of Emperor Qianlong 乾隆
Xiaosu, posthumous name of Bao Zheng 包拯 (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty
to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披麻戴孝
to get through the mourning period


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