Previously, Korea and China were arguing about “Where did Confucius come?” Today, we are going to talk about whether plastic surgery is violating Confucius’ ideology or not. If the country loves and respects Confucius so much, should their culture follow Confucianism?
You all know that Confucius himself married an ugly wife. There were a lot of celebrities marrying an ugly wife. Shakespeare, Zhuge Liang, and so on. So it seems that there’s no reason for woman to be doing plastic surgery due to “being unable to marry.”
I’m now citing the Master’s words: “ ...I was in countryside when I stayed at Australia.
I lived in Highfield. There was a volunteer coming to help me, but I saw she’s got problems. She’s sad and she’s in pain. One day I asked her: What her problem is？
She told me that she did a plastic surgery twenty years ago on her nose. Ten years later, she got the problem. It’s painful. Very painful.
So I told her that her original form when birth was the most beautiful form she’s ever got.
It’s unfilial to change it. How can unfilial people get their blessings? If you truly be filial to your parents, your teachers, and your loved ones, then your form shall change in time. Do not make some plastic surgery. It’s wrong to do that.
On the internet, we can see how foreigners teach their children. When we see a little black girl crying and saying to her father that “she’s ugly,”
Their parents will say
“No, you’re beautiful.”
In my way, I will say that being a good woman is much more important than being a good-looking woman. To be frank, I do not encourage women to become models just to prove their beauty. Becoming models gives no bonus points to women but gives bad impressions to their future husbands. The most conservative way is to follow the “Three Obeys and Four Virtues” advocated by the Confucianism.
The “Three Obeys and Four Virtues” has “four virtues” of women. There are four traits for women:
Their virtues,
Their language,
Their expressions,
And their techniques.
Among them, “expressions” does not necessarily mean to become beautiful. For this part, Confucius meant that their faces don’t need to be beautiful. Women shall cleanse themselves of dusts, shall keep their clothes neat, shall bath regularly, and shall keep their bodies clean. That’s what “expressions” should be.
As Confucius once said that,
“Our bodies - to every hair and bit of skin - are received by us from our parents, and we must not presume to injure or wound them. This is the beginning of filial piety. ”
For 2,500 years, people, men and women alike, always had long hairs. Imagine that people in the country, no matter their genders or age, even treasure their own hair, it’s impossible that they want to do something on their face. Plastic surgery is not encouraged by traditional cultures unless it’s legit. Unless it’s about their survival. Otherwise, any surgery means being unfilial.
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