About traditional Chinese work?

There are four peoples in traditional Chinese society: scholars, peasants, workers, and merchants. Shih was a social class. They had not only knowledge of culture and social norms, but also Confucian values. The central concept of Confucian ethics is benevolence and righteousness. At the same time, maintaining the social system of authoritarianism and the patriarchal family system was the political stance of the scholars. Practitioners in professional fields in the traditional Western sense originate from the class of shi.