This paper analyzed the folklore type No. 431-1;‘making his wife do filial
piety toward his parents with the impiety mind’(total 48 pieces) in a viewpoint
of family relationships narratives, family ethics and community
m oral narratives. Such type brought up some important questions;what is
the sincere filial piety? Is it permissible for the husband to deceive his wife
with a good motivation of letting her do a filial piety?
First of all, this paper divided the type 431-1 into 4 groups according to
the viewpoint of conflict between parents-in-law and daughter-in-law;the
first, satisfying need for recognition type, a daughter-in-law change her
attitude because of words of praise by her parents-in-law. The second,
helping housekeeping type, parents-in-law begin to help their daughter-in-law
after recovering their health owing to their daughter-in-law\'s material supporting. The third, intimacy type, sharing sympathetic mind between
parents-in-law and a daughter-in-law. The forth, complex type, mixed with
the other three types. The audience and speakers considered the relationship
between parents-in-law and a daughter-in-law as a reciprocal contraction,
and they had some expectation on their collaboration, sympathy, and social
concern on a daughter-in-law\'s filial piety toward her parents-in-law. And they
showed that the family relationship should be gather some social consideration
as a form of observing and estimating by the public sphere.
In a viewpoint of family relationship narrative, such type can be approached
in 3 facades. The first, in a position of ‘son/husband’, he evoked some
problematic family dilemma through deceiving his wife for the purpose of
making her do filial piety toward his parents. However, eventually such a
fraudulent suggestion led to an unexpected result;reconciliation between wife
and parents could be called a ‘paradoxical effect of lie.’ The second, in a
position of ‘daughter-in-law/wife’, some stories revealed the wife\'s weak
social position and unfair couple relationship through the husband\'s attitude;
it was premised that the husband\'s lie could be rationalized because he lied
for parents with a good motivation. The third, in a position of ‘parents/parent-in-law’,
some stories showed the aged persons\' dependant position;economical
poverty and physical weakness. It was urgent need for the aged persons of
material support from their son and daughter-in-law to keep their survival and
such thing could unexpectedly resolve the conflict between ‘parents/parent-in-law’
and ‘son/daughter-in-law’.
In conclusion, the type 431-1 suggested some questions problematically;
the family relationship couldn\'t be improved only depending on the obligatory
demand for ethics. It was need that mutual aid between family members, breaking the parent\'s unilateral authoritarianism and keeping the manners of
appropriative consideration toward the other family as a neighbor.