A Confucian View On Parenting And Power

Happy politics starts with a happy home

indi.ca
7 min readJul 6, 2021

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From a larger image of Kongzi handing the baby Buddha to Laozi for some reason

After a parent dies, Kongzi (Confucius) said you’re supposed to wear sackcloth and live silently in a hut for years. This made as little sense in 500 BC as it does now, and so his disciple Zizhang asked. What does this mean?

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