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Text 5 Xìao jing 孝經 1
The Xìao jing, or “Classic of Filial Piety” (ugh!) is a Hàn 漢 Dynasty product and
represents the increasingly authoritarian direction of Confucian ideology of that period. It
was regarded during the traditional period as the work of Confucius himself, and came to
have enormous influence over the fathers and sons of China for two millennia. The text
below represents the first of the text’s 18 action-packed chapters.
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