Why don't China people have the spirit of contract?

In our country, Chinese people generally lack the spirit of contract, and the reason why China lacks the spirit of contract can be said to be different opinions. More generally speaking, we have been a small-scale peasant economy for a long time, and there is no exchange, so there is no contractual spirit. In fact, although China is dominated by small-scale peasant economy, there has been a commodity economy since the Spring and Autumn Period. Confucius' disciples Zi and Zi were both famous businessmen at that time. After the Han Dynasty, commerce was also relatively developed. We can't simply think that exchange doesn't necessarily generate trust and contract spirit naturally.

During the Zhou Dynasty, people paid attention to the "courtesy" to govern the world, and people generally talked about "faith". What really makes China people lack the spirit of contract is the 500-year-long state of war that began in the Spring and Autumn Period. War is a life-and-death struggle. In order to win the war, many countries have to use many tricks. The long-term war has fostered a culture of fraud in China, thus destroying the spiritual foundation of the China Contract.

The first person to break the contract in the war was Chu in the south. In the Spring and Autumn War, Chu was a "barbarian" and was looked down upon by all countries in the Central Plains. At that time, all countries ruled the world with "courtesy", fought with each other, and paid attention to making a name for themselves. Very few countries directly annexed other countries without special reasons. At that time, Chu State was famous for its bad faith. Chu himself is the king first, and often attacks other countries directly without any excuse, and he does not compromise. For example, Chu destroyed Deng Guo in the process of attacking Shen Guo to win the reward, and Deng Guo's uncle was a monarch, so he was unprepared. Such behavior was unthinkable in the Central Plains countries at that time.

With the continuous development of the war situation, China people have formed a culture of deception, among which the Art of War is a typical representative. Sun Tzu's art of war puts forward that soldiers are cunning. The article is about deceiving and confusing the enemy by various means. The most typical is a tactic that is basically unimaginable in the history of western wars: fraudulent surrender, and gaining the trust of the other side by pretending to surrender. If the enemy suspects, someone will swear, cut off his arm and even kill his relatives, and then suddenly attack when he is not suspicious. The "bright spot" of this tactic is to consume the trust of the other side. Therefore, the long-term culture of war deception has created an environment in China where no one dares to imagine each other easily, because any means to make you trust may be an illusion. How easily you imagine others shows that you are immature and "naive" in China culture, leaving China with no soil for establishing the spirit of contract.