This chapter analyzes the elemental idea of filial piety as found in The Classic on Filial Piety for Women or Nu Hsiao Ching. Confucianism admits no revealed scriptures even though it embraces the ultimate supremacy of Heaven and Earth over human beings. With the disappearance of the ancestral tablet comes a diminished sense of ancestral continuity, particularly in the role of the mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Even though the individual thread of filial piety continues to be strong, two other threads within the tapestry of Chinese ritual tradition for women have been cut and removed. First, the empress, who was the symbolic head of Confucian womanhood, no longer exists because of the historical overthrow of the feudal government and creation of a modern Chinese government in the twentieth century. Second, the extended family has been replaced by the nuclear family, undermining the importance and power of older women in their roles as grandmothers.