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Keywords:: filial piety; Tang dynasty; food; clothing; shelter and transportationbasic necessities of life; patriarchal kinship

Abstract:: Filial piety ethics widely permeated into people’s social life in Tang dynasty, which was reflected in food, clothing, shelter and transportationbasic necessities of life. Through sorting out the literature, it is found that children need to do their best to provide adequate food for the elders, and combining the eldersphysical condition, to collocate food rationally; children should leave the best clothes to the elders, children should dress according to the etiquette at the same time; children should live together with the elders generation after generation, but should not have special requirements; when the parents are alive, their children shouldn’t travel far, even when travelling they should respect their elders, and provide convenient conditions for performing the duty of filial piety for the elders. It is thus clearly that people in the aspect of basic necessities of life in Tang dynasty followed the principle of priority to the elders and ready to perform the duty of filial piety.