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Confucian teachings about filial piety can be found in numerous texts, including the Four Books, that is the "Great Learning" (), the "Doctrine of the Mean" (), "Analects" () and the book "Mencius", as well as the works "Classic of Filial Piety" () and the "Book of Rites" () . In the "Classic of Filial Piety", Confucius (551–479 BCE) says that "[f]ilial piety is the root of virtue and the basis of philosophy" and modern philosopher Fung Yu-lan describes filial piety as "the ideological basis for traditional [Chinese] society".