RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Filial Piety

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Victor S?gen Hori

Document Summary

Each family has an ancestor that gives the members their identity. Each ancestor has a virtue that is passed on. The first responsibility is to have a son that will carry on the family name and its heritage. In each relationship, one is superior and thus responsible for the inferior person e. g. if younger brother gets in a fight, older brother takes the blame. Compete with the wife to have sons and make them the heir. Kids must care for their parents, cook for them, etc. The children have no life of their own but serving their parents. The oldest son is supposed to mourn for three years. Because the first three years of his life, a kid cannot care for his parents. Take 24hrs to prepare the coming of a spirit. The host would put up a banquet for the guest (spirit)