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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Eastern quarter- Children and Parents

Five Kinds of Family Duty for Sons and Daughters

1) Sons and daughters must attend caringly to their parents so as to provide them with all the requisites in life.

2) They must carry out the family affairs, such as the business matters of their parents.

3) They must maintain their parents' properties, their parents' clan name, their parents' religious duties, to try and straighten their parents' religious view if they have a wrong view. They must also maintain the good name of their parents and their lineage.

4) They must obey their parents and make themselves worthy of the parents' heritage.

5) On their parents' death they should do good deeds in dedication to them and share the merits with them.

Five Kinds of Family Duty for Parents

1) Parents must prevent their sons and daughters from misconduct.

2) They must show their sons and daughters the way to good conduct.

3) They must make their sons and daughters learn the arts and sciences.

4) They must give them in marriage to suitable persons.

5) They must give them their inheritance at the proper time.

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