老子教训儿子 那是天经地义啊
“A father is responsible for disciplining his son.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
吊在房梁上打
“he'd tie me to the beam to beat me up.”
老子 教训 儿子 那是 天经地义 啊
“A father is responsible for disciplining his son.”
儿子孝顺老子
“And a son must”
“I have every right to punish my son however I see fit, so nobody can tell me I'm wrong.”
In traditional Confucian family values, the father holds ultimate disciplinary authority over the son, often framed as moral duty rather than abuse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
father / dad (colloquial, masculine, often self-referential)
Used colloquially or bluntly to emphasize seniority and masculine dominance.
natural and unalterable / universally accepted principle
A four-character idiom (chengyu) invoked to claim that something is an undeniable moral truth.
Emphasizes the speaker's strong conviction that the stated premise is self-evident.
