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- It is not the first time that the kowtow and its place in modern China has been a hot topic on social media. A 46-year-old man kowtowed to his parents as a sign of filial piety at a railway station in 2016.
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Feb 12, 2016 · Stark images of a Chinese man kowtowing to his elderly parents at a railway station prompt a debate about the concept of filial piety and its place in modern China.
Feb 12, 2016 · Stark images of a Chinese man kowtowing to his elderly parents at a railway station has moved many online to debate the concept of filial piety and its place in modern China.
Feb 23, 2016 · The Qilu Evening Post, a regional paper in eastern Shandong Province, recently showed a photograph of a 46-year-old Chinese man named Zhang Jinli. He works for a pharmaceutical company in Beijing, and in the photo, he’s pictured kowtowing to his parents at a railway station.
The emperor himself would kowtow to his mother or dowager empresses, as reverence to the older generations trumped other considerations. At a marriage couples would kowtow to their parents; schoolchildren would perform the full kowtow to Confucius twice a month and the ‘sankou’ to their teachers.
Feb 8, 2018 · A 46-year-old man kowtowed to his parents as a sign of filial piety at a railway station in 2016. The act touched many netizens, but others thought it was “too much”.
In Chinese culture, if elderly kowtow you, it's not suppose to happen because kowtow is a respect thing for the elderly, or dead. Since I grew up in Indonesia, I don't really know much about the story of old Chinese folk story, but rather folklore about ungrateful son. but nowadays you know sometime people like to just label their son or ...
Sep 10, 2009 · The kowtow, kotow, or ketou 2 —the act of kneeling and bowing the head to the ground—has long stood, for British and American diplomats and scholars, at the very centre of the controversy about relations between China and the West.
