The chief virtue is filial piety, a combination of loyalty and rever the demands that the son show respect to his father and fulfill of his elders
Confucianism emphasizes virtue, selflessness, duty, patriotism, work, respect for hierarchy, both familial and societa Just as George Washington and the story of the cherry tree is used in the United States to teach the value of honesty, Chinese about people who represent particular virtues example, 6th children about such heroes a woman of the century who disguised herself as a man and served 12 years as a soldier so that her ill father would not be disgraced or punished because he could not report for military duty.