A philosophical perspective on the Chinese concept of consumption

I, the traditional concept of consumption

(a), the Chinese people attach importance to the material utility, do not attach importance to spiritual consumption

"Life in the world, eat and drink two words", from this proverb can be seen in the Chinese people's concept of consumption of the characteristics of the Chinese people to the traditional Chinese people are more realistic, spend money to spend down-to-earth, buy things pay attention to the good value and cheap, never buy things that do not look good, but are not useful. They never buy things that look good but are not useful. Once the Chinese have money, the first thing that comes to mind is to eat well. In the traditional sense, the Chinese believe that eating well is the greatest happiness.

(2) Focus on savings, diligence and thrift

The Chinese people are the most savings-oriented people in the world, probably because of our strong sense of national security, people always put most of the money saved up for emergencies. On the other hand, poverty is another reason for focusing on savings. The Chinese have a moralistic outlook, and it is widely believed that spending money lavishly is a shameful behavior, while being diligent and thrifty is viewed as morally noble, and is respected and praised.

(C) Flaunting Consumption is Despised

Flaunting consumption is a term coined by American economist Van Buren, which refers to the satisfaction of vanity when people buy certain commodities in order to show off their wealth and arouse the envy of others, and to get praises and compliments from them. He noted that wealthy people often consume showy goods to show that they have more wealth or a higher social status. Vanity is a pejorative word, especially in China, vanity is an extremely sensitive word,

(4) ignorance consumption accounted for a certain proportion (superstitious feng shui, qigong, drugs, etc.)

Hayek pointed out that ignorance is the most fundamental attribute of human beings, ignorance is embodied in the western society, mainly their religious beliefs, history, the church uses human ignorance to rule the minds of people, and then gain the supremacy of the people. Historically, the church has utilized human ignorance to rule people's minds, and then gained supreme power, thus brutally exploiting the government and the public. Until today, the western church still has a vast economic source and strong economic strength, and many famous universities in the west are mostly church-run universities, such as Harvard University in the United States, which is a church-run university. Western people's ignorance of consumption is mainly rooted in religion, such as donating money to the church, spend huge sums of money thousands of miles to religious shrines pilgrimage, etc., in addition, a variety of cults in the West is also more prevalent, the cult's fundamental goal is to take advantage of the people's ignorance of enrichment, the Western people believe in cults are not a few, most of whom dedicate most of their own property to the master of the church.

Unlike the West, China has not developed a distinctive religious tradition throughout its history, and although Buddhism, a foreign religion, and Taoism, a homegrown religion, have had a relatively broad and far-reaching influence, on the whole the proportion of Chinese believers in these two religions in the overall population has not been very large, either historically or in the present day.

The stupidity of the Chinese people is mainly reflected in their superstitious thinking, and the Chinese people actually spend a certain percentage of their money on superstitions