...without leaving a son to perpetuate the worship of his ancestors and himself. Mencius (S1? ) says. "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." (^-^-WHffi^^^c) In passing, it may be noted that the other two unfilial things are the encouragement...

...of saying: 'What shall 1 think of this? What shall I think of this?' I cannot do anything with him." "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." "Good laws are not equal to winning the people by good instruction." "The great man is he who does...

...the mother who bore him. So he lived. Besides, he had no son to do his memory Mencius has said : " There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of these." The Chung Choong could not depart this life with so great a sin upon his conscience. Accordingly,...

...importance of the continuity of the house and of the ancestral worship. " There are," says Mencius, " three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." The other two, by the way, are the encouragement of parents in unrighteousness, and failure to succour...

...have given woman the low position which she formerly occupied in Japan and elsewhere. Mencius says: "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." The one and only object of marriage was the perpetuation of worship.2 There simply must be posterity....

...taken under pressure of the dominating ideas of filial piety and ancestor worship. Mencius said : " There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them " (Life and Works of Mencius, Legge, p. 25o). This, of course, is said in the belief of the necessity...

...the cultivator owns his land and implements and pays tribute to no man. For a grinding mass poverty that cannot be matched in the Occident there remains...is the parent's prerogative — he wants to see his son settled as soon as possible. Before his son is twenty-one he provides him with a wife as a matter...

...r It is believed that unless twice a year certain \ rites are performed and paper money is burned J at a man's grave by a male descendant, his spirit...the greatest of them." It is a man's first concern, therefore^Ja apouro tho sviccoscionin the male line. He not only wants a number of sons, but — since...

...work The Pith of the Classics : The Chinese Classics in Everyday Life. A Popular Excuse classics—" There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them "—is used as the reason for taking a wife, and especially for taking a concubine, when a man is without...

...the ancients, would have acted with a view to eating and drinking. CHAPTKE XXVI. 1 • Mencius said, "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them. 2. "Shun married, without informing his parents, because of this, — lest he should have no posterity....