Roots of Filial Piety
General Vocabulary
Practices and Tenets of Filial Piety
Connections to The Joy Luck Club
100

This spiritual movement was where the idea of Filial Piety was popularized.

What is Confucianism?

100

This person was the founder of the movement of Confucianism

Confucius

100

Filial Piety states that you must honor your parents in these two states

Life and Death

100
Gegu was practiced in this chapter

Scar

200

Filial piety is considered the ____ of moral goodness in Confucianism

Foundation, Core, or something similar

200
This is the spiritual concept of honoring one's parents.

Filial Piety

200
This practice is known as Gegu

Ritual cannibalism between parent and child as a method of spiritually healing illness

200

This character feels as if her mother's opinion wildly changes her own opinions of things due to the level of respect she was raised to have for her mother because of the idea of Filial Piety

Waverly Jong

300

Another name for Filial Piety

Xiao

300

This term encapsulates the idea of the respect brought up by Filial Piety going both ways

Reciprocal Filial Piety

300

This percentage of babies between the ages of 0-1 were affected by human trafficking between the years of 1997 and 2014 as a result of Filial Piety?

Roughly 80%
300

This character houses her mother for a week while her building is being rewired, despite her worries about tensions in the house

Lena St. Clair

400

This is when Filial Piety was popularized in China.

6th-5th century BCE

400

This is the term explaining how filial piety can be used offensively.

Distortion of Filial Piety

400
Filial piety states that respect for one's parents should be valued above what
Everything else
400

This character's mother tells her that if she does not listen to her, she will never be able to make her own decisions or stick to a path

Rose Hsu Jordan

500

The way in which pain or mental problems caused by bad experiences are passed down from parents to children

Generational Trauma

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