The roots of this Confucian emphasis on the importance of family go back to the ancient agrarian view of the family as a continuum spanning heaven and earth, with the ancestors in heaven holding the power to affect the lives of the current generation. The best way someone could look after their living family was therefore to pay their respects as diligently as possible to those who had passed on to heaven. Attention to the appropriate rituals for the ancestors was, indeed, a guiding tenet of traditional Chinese life and a core principle of Confucianism.
Very true. The respect of the dead as a duty for family
