It's serious can naproxen 500mg make you fail a drug test It used to be in China that the idea of filial piety, or honoring your parents, was instilled from birth. A Chinese proverb calls filial piety "the first among 100 virtues," and the ancient philosopher Confucius credited it as the bedrock of social harmony. As a 2008 bulletin from the U.S. aging advocacy group AARP said: "For thousands of years, filial piety was China's Medicare, Social Security and long-term care, all woven into a single family virtue."