In traditional Chinese society, the teacher ranked beside "Heaven, Earth, Monarch and Parents" as the partner in one of the "Five Human Relationships." The teacher's exalted status was on a par with that of the monarch, and to "betray one's teacher" was as unconscionably immoral an act as killing one's own parents, for the teacher represented unchallengeable authority.
「師」在中國傳統社會與「天地君親」並列崇高的地位，形象如同君父；「欺師」與「滅祖」同屬大逆不道的惡罪，老師代表的是不容挑戰的權威。