 | Harold G. Coward, Phinit Rattanakun - 1999 - 287 psl.
...piety is to provide male offspring to propagate the family name. Mencius specifically stated that, "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them all."28 This explains why births in general and male births in particular are welcome events in Chinese... | |
 | 1973 - 464 psl.
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 | Matthew Harvey Sommer - 2000 - 868 psl.
...procreation, was always understood to play a central role in filial piety. As Mencius famously commented: "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them" (Legge 1970, 313). T'ung-tsu Ch'ii elaborates: "It may be said that the family had to be maintained... | |
 | 1987 - 1260 psl.
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 | Thomas G. Selby - 2001 - 270 psl.
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 | Daniel C. Maguire - 2001 - 176 psl.
...world in which life was short and perilous. Fertility was stressed. The Confucian writer Mencius said: "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the worst of them." Shang says: "Many Chinese, if not most, still believe in this today." Through history,... | |
 | Peter N. Gregory - 2002 - 388 psl.
...maintenance of ancestor worship. The emphasis placed on producing progeny was duly stated by Mencius: "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them."25 A celibate son, renouncing his sacred duty for a life as a Buddhist monk, thus seemed to threaten... | |
 | Richard Gunde - 2002 - 292 psl.
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There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them. 
