虎毒尚且不食子
“Even tigers don't eat their own young.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
当真是他的亲生儿子啊
“The one who died in Jingzhao Prefecture last night was truly his own son?”
虎毒尚且不食子
“Even tigers don't eat their own young.”
“What kind of monster harms his own flesh and blood?”
Traditional Confucian ethics demand benevolent love ('慈') from parents just as much as obedience ('孝') from children; violating natural parental protection is seen as the ultimate descent into inhumanity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even a vicious tiger will not eat its cubs
A staple proverb invoked whenever a parent betrays, harms, or exploits their biological children.
even / still (used to introduce a baseline comparison)
Used in formal or emphatic spoken contexts to construct a rhetorical 'even X does Y, let alone Z' argument.
