The consequences we learned
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Interesting question! I was told to respect elders when I was a little child or we would be puniched by "Shang Tian"(Sky). My grandmother told me a story about the filial piety, which was fictional. Onece a child was very disrespectful to his grandpa. He gave him leftover food and torn clothes living in a darkroom. The sky ( mythologically) knew and got very angry to throw a big thunderstorm, Mr.Thunder took the bad kid out and ordered him to kneel down under a big tree to apologize to his grndpa as his punishment. SInce ever I learned the moral lesson of filial piety. Whenever I heard thunderstorm, I imagined that someone must be pumnished by Mr. Thunder because of their his disrespect to elders. I dare not even talk louder to my grandma becasue I was so scared of Mr.ThunderÅ› punishment.


