Filial mourning (simplified Chinese: 丁忧; traditional Chinese: 丁憂; pinyin: dīngyōu) refers to a bureaucratic norm, practiced since the Han dynasty, whereby...

expressions of, and exercises in, filial piety were the burial and mourning rituals to be held in honor of one's parents. Filial piety means to be good to one's...

Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, also translated as The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Chinese: 二十四孝), is a classic text of Confucian filial piety written...

Chen Shou. The Jin Shu mentioned that Chen Shou fell sick during the filial mourning period after his father's death. Some guests who visited his home expressed...

practice to read aloud the text when mourning one's parents. The text was also important politically, partly because filial piety was both a means of demonstrating...

return to after divorce (有所娶無所歸) The wife has served three years of filial mourning for deceased parent(s)-in-law (與更三年喪) The husband was poor upon marriage...

through this process of ancestor veneration (愼終追遠 shèn zhōng zhuī yuǎn). Filial mourning Ancestor veneration in China Color in Chinese culture Chinese burial...

Death anniversary Folk religion Festival Matsuri Sacrifice to Heaven Filial mourning Śrāddha Jecheon event Omiki Jangnye Merit-making Parentalia, similar...

mother died, he resigned and went home to perform filial mourning. Three years later, just after the mourning period, he returned to serve as the Junior Vice...

by the death of his mother to return to Hunan Province to carry out filial mourning, which is supposed to last three years. Around the time, the Taiping...

welcome into their chambers" Han dynasty inscriptions often describe the filial mourning for their subjects. Murals painted on the walls of the Goguryeo tombs...

happened. This conclusion is reached by counting Wu Ding's 3 years of filial mourning as separate from his 59-year reign. This factor is not considered in...

his mother died, he resigned and returned home to perform filial mourning. After the mourning period, he returned to serve as Court Architect (將作大匠) and...

including financial, and mourning in the event of death. Fulfilment of these duties constituted the principal Chinese virtue - filial piety (xiao, 孝). Family...

promoted to the Guozijian in Nanjing as a professor, but went into filial mourning, returning to his native Quanzhou. During this time he participated...

time, Zhong Hui was practising filial mourning because his mother recently died. However, he immediately stopped mourning and went to warn Sima Zhao when...

will to be buried with Dong instead of her late husband. During her filial mourning period, her two sons (Empress Chen's brothers) Chen Xu and Chen Yu...

Yuan Shoutong 袁守侗 27 January 1780 13 January 1782 Left office for filial mourning Zhou Yuanli 周元理 27 January 1780 Acting Viceroy of Zhili Ying Lian 英廉...

dutifully performed filial mourning. He also treated his stepmother in a courteous and respectful manner, which earned him fame for his filial piety. When chaos...

state rituals and mourning rites for ancestors, up until late imperial times (13th–20th century). Also, sūtras and narratives about filial piety are still...

listened to him. When his mother died, Jia Xu resigned and went home for filial mourning. He was given the honorary position of a Household Counsellor (光祿大夫)...

13 Fan Chengxun 范承勳 10 August 1694 15 November 1698 Left office for filial mourning 14 Zhang Penghe 張鵬翮 23 December 1698 28 April 1700 Reassigned to serve...

Confucian philosophy calls for paying respect to one's ancestors, an aspect of filial piety; Zhuo Xinping (2011) views traditional patriarchal religion as the...

ethical foundation for humane government. The documents show the sagacity, filial piety, and work ethic of mythical sage-emperors Yao, Shun, and Yu, who established...

lifestyle of filial mourning, which was customary for officeholders when their parent(s) died. He excused Cao Xiu from wearing mourning garments and gave...

Li Fengniang, and that he refused to wear mourning clothes making the officials angry about his lack of filial piety. He died in 1200 near Shaoxing, Zhejiang...

Jing Prefecture (in modern Gansu) until his mother's death. After the filial mourning period, he was reassigned to Bin Prefecture where he enjoyed a good...

for his filial piety, which he maintained even when he was already in his 60s. When his mother died, he left office to perform filial mourning and displayed...

longevity." He was noted for his filial piety, and after the death of his parents he could not read the rites of mourning without being led to think of them...

he resigned office to observe the customary three-year period of filial mourning. However, Gao's successor, Emperor Wu of Southern Qi (r. 482–493),...