China Charity —— China's Charity View

The Chinese nation has a tradition of love and charity, which can be seen from the tradition of "respecting the old, caring for the young, caring for the old and helping the old" advocated by China traditional culture.

China people are deeply influenced by Confucian culture, that is, "if you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are rich, you will help the world", and you will take the road of self-cultivation and self-cultivation. Under this Confucian ethical system, it is not difficult to see that only by maximizing one's pursuit of politics or wealth, that is, maximizing one's life value, can one "level the world", save all people trapped in the quagmire and help others.

"Donating money and materials" is charity.

Charity is not only manifested in donating money and materials. Modern charity encourages people to "make contributions with money", and "donating money and materials" is only a manifestation of charity, and there are many ways to do good. For example, being a volunteer and contributing time, energy and wisdom to a social organization are all manifestations of charity. However, statistics show that there are not many such normal volunteers in China.

Help "familiar" but not "raw"

On behalf of charity, there is absolutely no distinction between "closeness" and "equality" towards recipients. Charity will have specific donation areas and recipients, but the division of such areas and the determination of recipients will not be affected by "geographical relationship", "blood relationship" and familiarity with themselves, but will be guided by "universal" values and treat needy recipients as equally as possible.

For example, Bill Gates' charity. Focusing on the concept of "health", the Bill Gates Foundation provides services to countries in need and people in need. However, from the deeds of the above-mentioned billionaires' donations, we can see that the recipients who donate money to do good deeds are all "neighbors". Although this is also a kind of charity, I prefer to call it charity in the traditional sense of China, rather than charity in the modern sense.

I remember that at the beginning of this century, an organization made a survey across 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. This survey shows that when asked what to do when they meet strangers on the road for help, nearly half of them choose to "bypass and ignore"; Those who choose "help" account for more than 30%. But when asked, "If your colleagues, fellow villagers, classmates and friends need help, will you help them?" More than 80% of people answered "Yes". Less than 10% answered "no".

It can be seen that more than 80% people are willing to help people they know, while only nearly 35% people are willing to help people they don't know. It seems that not only the rich, but also the ordinary people in China can't do without the influence of "relationship" to some extent. When analyzing the donation characteristics of China in the first half of 2009, China Charity Donation Information Center also found an interesting discovery: donors, especially small donors, "pay more attention to helping people in need around them".

After all, China is a "human" society. Many social organizations are willing to use their geographical relationship with the rich to raise funds, and leading cadres in poor areas are also willing to use this relationship with the rich to let the rich return to China to invest or donate. This kind of charity with China characteristics will not be improved in a short time.