Confucius Quote on Filial Service: Is Providing Labor and Food Considered Filial Piety?

Confucius Quote: If, when their elders have any troublesome affairs, the young take the toil of them, and if, when the young have wine and food, they set them before their elders, is this to be considered filial piety?

If, when their elders have any troublesome affairs, the young take the toil of them, and if, when the young have wine and food, they set them before their elders, is this to be considered filial piety?

有事弟子服其劳,有酒食先生馔,曾是以为孝乎?

Source: The Analects, Wei Zheng II, Chapter 8

Author: Confucius / 孔子

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