At the same time Confucius placed great emphasis on filial piety, as evidenced by sayings such as "filial affection is fundamental to man" and "in life, serve them with propriety, and in death bury them with propriety and venerate them with propriety."
所謂「孝悌也者，其為人之本歟」、「生，事之以禮；死，葬以之禮、祭之以禮。」