What does loyalty mean?

Foolish loyalty and filial piety is an idiom in China, pronounced yú zhōng yú xiào o, which means being unreasonable and blindly foolish and loyal to filial piety.

1. Foolish loyalty has multiple meanings, one is the humble title of self-loyalty, the other is the loyalty to ignorance of things, and the third is the loyalty of capable people to incompetent people.

This word is derogatory. Often refers to being stupid and reckless, not considering the reasons, not measuring the pros and cons, only knowing to do things according to orders, without having their own ideas.

2. Xiaoyu is a Chinese character, and its pinyin is yú xiào o, which refers to the ignorant filial piety of things, such as cutting stocks and treating relatives.

Confucianism advocates filial piety, especially in the Han Dynasty, where filial piety ruled the world. After the death of every emperor, posthumous title added a word of filial piety, such as Emperor Wen and Emperor Wu. Confucianism also advocates loyalty and righteousness. Confucius said, "A monarch makes his envoys polite and his ministers loyal to the monarch." ("The Analects of Confucius Eight Shu")

A pair of slogans that have been misunderstood by later generations and are popular in the world are: you tell me to die, I don't die, I am disloyal; The father told his son to die, but his son didn't die, and his son was unfilial. Today people call this slogan foolish loyalty and filial piety.

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Related story Lao Lai Ban Yi

All from "Twenty-four Filial Pieties": During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a hermit named Lao Laizi in the State of Chu. This old Laizi is very filial to his parents, considerate to them, and tries his best to please them. In order to make his parents happy, Lao Laizi specially raised some beautiful birds for his parents to play with. He often teases the birds himself to make them make beautiful calls.

Father was very happy to hear that. He always smiles and says, "What a beautiful bird sound!" Lao Lai was very happy to see a smile on his parents' faces. Lao Laizi is actually not young, he is over 70. Once, parents looked at their son's gray hair and sighed, "Even our son is so old, and our days in the world are not long." Lao Lai is afraid of his parents' worries and tries his best to make them happy.

So he made a set of colorful clothes and pretended to dance when he walked, which made his parents very happy. One day, he took pulp to class for his parents. He accidentally fell down. Afraid of his parents' sadness, he pretended to cry and rolled on the ground. Parents really think that Lao Lai fell and rolled on purpose. Seeing that he always couldn't get up, he smiled and said, "Laizi is really fun. Get up quickly. "

This idiom describes that children try their best to make their elderly parents feel comfortable, but it makes people feel absurd and unreasonable.

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