ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the convoluted reasoning on the contentious governing rationality between teachers/parents and students/children embedded within the kneeling-bowing events. Along with aim to train and produce virtuous, wise, strong-bodied, and aesthetically beautiful students, kneeling-bowing rite is the reintroduction of some Confucian value primers like Three Character Classics and Filial Piety Classics into the K-12 school morality education curriculum. Media reports on the Guangzhou Middle School Passage Rite said that most parents were deeply moved into tears by this kneeling ceremony. One graduate from the Guangdong Experimental Middle School comments on their schooling Passage Rite in his blog: "During the Passage Rite, when we look up, we may see strings of grey hair or watery eyes of our parents and a sudden feeling of gratitude may emanate from our heart". In his How Do We Make Parents for the Present, Lu Xun argues that the Chinese hierarchical parent-child way of thinking entails parent's total psychosomatic determination of children.
