Your loyalty and filial piety we appreciate exceedingly. Druze principles focus on honesty, loyalty, filial piety, altruism, patriotic sacrifice, and monotheism. This festival was a response to Confucian ideals of filial piety. The parrot becomes a symbol of filial piety. These stories depict how children exercised their filial piety in the past. Nezha is also often regarded as the patron god of children and filial piety. This was done as a symbolic demonstration of filial piety or grandeur. Shun was particularly renowned for his modesty and filial piety (xiao ). The theme is of suffering and filial piety. Confucian teachings about filial piety have left their mark on East Asian languages and culture. "Lingchi" therefore contravenes the demands of filial piety. Confucian literature makes mention of the staff in the context of filial piety. Min Sun was one of the 24 Confucian paragons of filial piety. The social aspects of the philosophy are hierarchical with a focus on filial piety. Failure to carry out this ritual is considered a failure of filial piety.