The theme of the Doctrine of the Mean is to educate people to consciously carry out self-cultivation, self-supervision, self-education, and self-improvement, so as to cultivate themselves into an ideal personality and achieve the most goodness, most benevolence, most sincerity, and the most perfect way. The ideal figure who is the most virtuous, the most holy, and who combines the external and internal principles, creates the realm of "peace and harmony" that "achieves neutrality, harmonizes the heavenly position, and nurtures all things."

Fundamentally speaking, Confucianism believes that the root of social chaos lies in the human heart. Therefore, to fundamentally achieve social governance, we should start with the governance of the human heart. This point has its profound significance. The emergence of many social problems is ultimately caused by the lack of governance in people's hearts. This is one of the reasons why after the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, rulers established Confucianism, which values ??governance based on human hearts, as one of the most powerful schools of thought. Confucianism has been used by rulers of successive dynasties for more than two thousand years, playing an important role in maintaining stability and peace in traditional society.

2. The influence of Confucian culture on the Chinese economy

Market economy allocates resources through the market. Commodity exchange is natural. Competition is inevitable. But all this is not disordered. A healthy developing market

The economy should be an orderly economy. This good market economic order must not only rely on economic, legal and other means, but also must be maintained by moral force.

In fact, the role of morality is inseparable from economic, legal and other means. Without morality, any legal or economic means will be difficult to work. The essence of the market economy is the credit economy, market mechanisms, and market tools. Such as commodities, currency lending, sales, contracts, contracts, finance, futures, etc.

etc., all reflect credit relationships. Not being trustworthy will inevitably lead to economic chaos and various negative phenomena. The more the market economy develops, the more intense the competition will become. The more people are required to be trustworthy and ethical. The more unjust behaviors such as dishonesty, fraud, and indulgence must be rejected. The market economy's credit economic relationship

requires people to be honest and trustworthy while seeking profits.

Confucianism attaches great importance to righteousness. Honesty and trustworthiness have become the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. Carry forward this traditional virtue of ours

. It is very important to overcome the moral corruption and economic inefficiency that appear in the development process of market economy such as breach of trust, intrigues, default on debts, etc. Preface