The connotation of filial piety is to repay parents' upbringing and affirm their parents, so as to obey their instructions and orders and act according to their wishes. Filial piety is an act advocated by China's cultural tradition, which means that children's behavior should not go against the conscience of parents, elders and ancestors, so that they will not go astray, which is a manifestation of stable ethical relations.

The so-called "filial piety is the first virtue" shows that the Chinese nation attaches great importance to filial piety. Filial piety is generally manifested as filial piety and filial piety. Filial piety as an ethical concept was formally put forward in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Filial piety is mainly manifested by offering sacrifices to ancestors in ancestral halls. The object of filial piety is the deceased, which has a certain religious form. In the eyes of people in the Western Zhou Dynasty, ancestors are the life of our generation. Therefore, ancestor worship is to continue the life of ancestors.