... one's parents and ancestors. In Pearl S. Buck's novel, The Good Earth, the author implies that pre-Revolutionary Chinese people feel social obligations of filial piety. To the characters of the book, elders are first priority, the young have the obligation to remain silent and to follow their elders' orders without question, and honor the name of the families ancestors. Wang Lung ... gambles all the money away."and it angered him that as he saw himself and his sons rising into a landed family, the shiftless brood of his cousins should be running loose, bearing the same name as his own" ...

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