What's the difference between the consumption view of China people and that of foreigners?

First, the traditional consumption concept.

(a), China people value material utility, rather than spiritual consumption.

"Life is alive, eat, drink and be merry". From this proverb, we can see the characteristics of China people's consumption concept. Traditional China people are practical, spend money practically, pay attention to quality and low price, and never buy anything that looks useless. When Chinese people become rich, their first thought is to eat better. In the traditional consciousness, China people think that eating well is the greatest happiness.

(2) Pay attention to economy and be thrifty.

The Chinese nation is the most frugal nation in the world, which may be due to our strong sense of national hardship. People always save most of their money for a rainy day. On the other hand, poverty is another reason to pay attention to savings. People in China have moral concepts, and it is generally believed that it is shameful to spend money lavishly, while frugality is regarded as a noble morality, which is respected and praised.

Conspicuous consumption is despised.

Conspicuous consumption is a term coined by American economist Van Buren. It means that people buy a certain commodity to show their wealth and cause envy of others, and get praise and praise from others, so as to get vanity satisfaction. He pointed out that the rich often consume conspicuous goods to show that they have more wealth or higher social status. Vanity is a derogatory term, especially in China, vanity is an extremely sensitive word.

(d) Ignorant consumption accounts for a certain proportion (superstitious about Feng Shui, Qigong, drugs, etc.). )

Hayek pointed out that ignorance is the most fundamental attribute of human beings, and ignorance is reflected in western society, mainly their religious beliefs. Historically, the church used people's ignorance to rule people's minds, and then gained supreme power, thus brutally exploiting officials and people. Until today, the western churches still have broad economic sources and strong economic strength. Many famous universities in the west are mostly run by churches, such as Harvard University in the United States. Westerners' foolish consumption is mainly related to religion, such as donating money to the church and spending huge sums of money to worship in religious holy places. In addition, various cults are also popular in the West. The fundamental purpose of cults is to make use of people's ignorance to collect money. There are also a few people in the west who believe in cults, and most people give most of their property to their leaders.

Different from the West, China has not formed a distinct religious tradition in history. Although foreign Buddhism and local Taoism have a wide and far-reaching influence, on the whole, the proportion of believers who truly believe in these two religions in the whole population of China is not very large either in history or now.

China people's ignorance is mainly reflected in their superstitious thoughts, and China people actually spend a certain proportion on superstition.