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Confucianism -> Mengzi -> Li Lou II -> 58.2

孟子Mencius replied,
'There are five things which are pronounced in the common usage of the age to be unfilial.
The first is laziness in the use of one's four limbs, without attending to the nourishment of his parents.
The second is gambling and chess-playing, and being fond of wine, without attending to the nourishment of his parents.
The third is being fond of goods and money, and selfishly attached to his wife and children, without attending to the nourishment of his parents.
The fourth is following the desires of one's ears and eyes, so as to bring his parents to disgrace.
The fifth is being fond of bravery, fighting and quarrelling so as to endanger his parents.
Is Zhang guilty of any one of these things?
Now between Zhang and his father there arose disagreement, he, the son, reproving his father, to urge him to what was good.
To urge one another to what is good by reproofs is the way of friends.
But such urging between father and son
is the greatest injury to the kindness, which should prevail between them.
Moreover, did not Zhang wish to have in his family the relationships of husband and wife, child and mother?
But because he had offended his father,
and was not permitted to approach him,
he sent away his wife, and drove forth his son,
and all his life receives no cherishing attention from them.
He settled it in his mind that if he did not act in this way,
his would be one of the greatest of crimes.
Such and nothing more is the case of Zhang.'


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