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What kind of wealth concept does Confucius have? What are the guiding ideas that have contributed to China's internal changes in the transformation of modern civilization?

Wealth can be divided into material wealth and spiritual wealth. For spiritual wealth, Confucius' discussion is rich and thought-provoking. This article will focus only on Confucius' view of material wealth.

The past study of Confucius's thought, the thought of Confucius has done a variety of analysis of the exposition, but Confucius's view of wealth does not seem to have enough attention. In fact, the study of economic thought as an important part of Confucius wealth concept, not only help us to fully understand Confucius, better promote traditional culture, the reality of anti-corruption, standardize the market economy, the development of corporate culture, and promote the formation of a number of educated and good management of Confucian businessmen and other aspects have a positive significance.

The specific contents and meanings of material wealth are different in different times. Confucius lived in the era of material wealth concept of course and modern will not be exactly the same, but there is a basic point will not change, that is, to satisfy people's desire to live and worthy of the point of precious things, with modern economics, that is, the use of value and exchange value of the materialization of the labor in order to become wealth.