What does it mean that a bowl of water in front of a dutiful son's bed is better than a million piles of ash in front of his grave?

It means pretending to be filial when you are not filial when you are alive.

This is a warning to the filial son from the opposite side, explaining that filial piety should be when parents are alive, not until the day when parents die.

Famous sayings about filial piety

1, filial piety has three: filial piety, followed by humiliation, and can be raised under it. Ceng Zi

2. filial piety to my brother for the first time, and I believed it for the second time. Li Yuxiu

Let's begin, son, and get to know your mother with a smile. Virgil (ancient Rome)

4, the way of filial piety.

Only a healthy parent-child relationship based on unconditional love can eliminate all crises in life. Ross Campbell

Losing a loving mother is like putting a flower in a bottle. Although there is still color and fragrance, it has lost its roots. Lao She

7. We love our parents almost unconsciously, because this kind of love is as natural as human life. Only at the last moment of parting can we see how deep the roots of this feeling are.

8. Don't be unfilial and waste the skin of the Son of Man. Song of exhorting filial piety

9. It is the best privilege of the human spirit for the elderly to be respected. Stendhal (French)