Another saying is:" If you plant a pumpkin seed, you will get pumpkin in auturm, if you plant seeds of bean, then you will get beans".
In our notorious Cultrure Revolution, people believe that a child from "Five kinds of black" incude landlord, rich, right wing, anti-revolution and bad" are also bad and should be responsible for the "crime" originated by his/her parents"
But things are not so true from a long term view, that is just the initiation of the evolution of lifes. After thousands of hundred years, the son will be obviously different from his father.