He greatly esteemed ancestral rites and related family virtues such as filial piety. He hoped that through the practice of ritual everyone ... administrative structure of the centralized state and the ...

THE Hungry Ghost Festival month will see Taoists and Buddhists express filial piety in what is known as ... traditions that came from 5,000 years of Chinese history. “It is believed that spirits ...

Editor's note: Traditional arts and crafts are supreme examples of Chinese cultural ... who is believed to have lived over 4,000 years ago. "It's a famous story about the cultural importance of filial ...