Filial Piety In The Story Of Qiuju

In Chinese culture, the theory of filiality always laid a substantial foundation for human’s performances and brains. As ancient Chinese word said, there are three ways to be unfilial, the worst is to not produce offspring, which illustrates the culture that parents generate a child, especially a son, to carry family name is extremely significant in Chinese culture. The film "The Story of Qiuju”, which was directed by a famous Chinese director, Yimou Zhang, implicitly demonstrated that filiality can be a symbol of the feudal society in China. For example, the position of sons must be more powerful in the most family; underground social status of Chinese women; and people’s superficial comprehension towards basic law in China. At the beginning

Besides, the film provides a kind of deep-seated Chinese conventional culture and how the filiality played a key role in individuals’ mind in the Chinese feudal society. The essay applies some scholarly article to analyzes that the movie obscurely illustrates the unilateral understanding of filial piety from several people and different perspectives to abstract intense effects of traditional culture and ideas in the Chinese feudal society.

First, the movie demonstrates the unilateral understanding of filial piety from the female’s perspective of view in Chinese feudal society. In terms of the main protagonist of the movie, Qiuju is a representative of the majority female’s state in the Mid-20th century. “There was a striking continuity of ritual practice, especially an ancestor worship”(Zito, 336). In China, ancestor worship is very important to a Chinese family because Chinese people believe their ancestors can bless their family line can be inherited, and people hope their next generation is a son. At that time, because of the daughter, who had married with the son, does not belong to the original family but becomes a family member of her husband’s family, the only male can heir their family line. Therefore, people’s feudal thinking tends to be

In terms of Qiuju, which is a typical female representative in initial China, whereas varying most of the women at that time, she has the courage to against with the traditional system to explore fairness and justice, although because of similar traditional ideas: priority of carrying on the family line in common

Chinese culture. It can be certain that the theory of filiality must be a historical value that influences Chinese people’s physical and mental life. Moreover, chief Wang as a typical man among numerous males who carries on absolute patriarchal ideas, as well as conventional bearing views. Overall, the director tends to reveal various factors causing by deeply traditional performance, which to call to action to alter people’s mind and enable individuals to gain a relatively proper standpoint to distinguish what filiality is and how to achieve filiality truly