What is the traditional culture before public welfare?

Public welfare is a public product that individuals or organizations voluntarily provide to the public by doing good deeds. Here, doing good deeds and doing good deeds is the value judgment of individual or organizational behavior; The result of the action is to provide public goods to unspecified members of society.

Public welfare activities are the product of modern social conditions and the symbol of the spirit of citizen participation. Public welfare activities should produce public products that are conducive to improving public safety and increasing social welfare. When organizing public welfare activities, we should follow public morality, conform to public opinion, and strive to form a good atmosphere in which participants can win more benefits. Therefore, public welfare activities should include at least five elements: citizens, public interests, public morality, public will and interests.

"Public welfare" is a later word, which didn't appear until after the May 4th Movement. It means "public interest" and "public welfare" is its abbreviation. Before the May 4th Movement, there was no or little concept of "public interest". The earliest use cases are found in Lu Xun's articles. Lu Xun's Quasi-Romantic Talks Abroad: "Only foreigners say that we don't ask about public welfare, only know self-interest and love money, and we can't justify ourselves." Hong Shen's "Fan of the Rich Family" Act I: "Mrs. Wang has two nieces named Zhang, who are enthusiastic about public welfare and do their duty in a women's reform society on Joffrey Avenue."