Why is Huizhou culture different from China traditional culture in rejecting commercial spirit?

China's traditional cultural spirit is a combination of farming civilization, ethics and clan system, which essentially excludes commercial spirit. Rulers have always pursued the policy of attaching importance to agriculture and restraining business, artificially dividing the ranks of "scholars, farmers and businesses" with political power, which is saturated with the value orientation of "everything is inferior, only reading is high". However, in the long river of Huizhou culture, we have clearly distinguished the trinity mechanism of opposition and unity between clan ethics and business spirit, Confucianism and businessmen, which embodies important characteristics different from traditional concepts.

Huizhou traditional clan system and ethical spirit are the representatives of authentic China culture. However, it is in the place where the traditional ethical clan culture is the strongest, the most stable and the strictest that the largest commercial capital group in ancient China was born. Commercial operation, which has always been regarded as the last business in traditional society, has been highly appraised in Huizhou and has become a source of honor and influence. Huizhou people advocate profit-seeking, and they are persistent in their pursuit of business and capital. "The custom of the emblem, one is not conducive to others, others are not conducive to three, and three are unfavorable, especially." Huizhou merchants in these clan societies have deeply influenced the social customs, value systems and behavior patterns of Huizhou people and even the whole southeast culture.