On The Traditional Chinese Confucian Concept Of Frugality And Its Contemporary Value

The Chinese Confucianist thrifty as the traditional virtue is following the humanity material civilization advancement. In "the picks civilization" and "the agricultural civilization" people realized it was not easy to struggle with the na-ture and to create material wealth and produced this kind of simplest emotion and expense ethics in the physical production activity. Thought that any waste of the material wealth means not respecting the human difficult work and the a-chievement. We have achieved the great achievement in our country socialism modernization process, meanwhile all kinds of luxurious expense questions which become more and more prominent and increasingly not favor the develop-ment of individual and society causes the Confucianist thrifty as the traditional virtue to become the topic which people studied. The Confucianist thrifty thought is well-established, is esteemed as early as several thousand years ago by the people, and develops along with the time.This paper takes this as the research background, organically combines Chinese nation's Confucianist tradition thrifty morality with the spirit of the age requested in the socialist modernization drive, entrusts with the view of the tra-ditional thrifty by the modern value, also inherits the Chinese nation's fine tra-dition, simultaneously gets rid of the fetter of the negative factor in the tradi-tional virtues, and realizes the transformation from the traditional thrifty thought to the modern thrifty thought.Focusing on the central topic of the Chinese traditional Confucianist thrifty view and the contemporary value, this article tries to construct the topic from the following two aspects:The first part, from the perspective of the Chinese traditional Confucianist thrifty view, the paper historically reviews the traditional Confucianist thrifty thought's production, development, circuitous vicissitude, thus carries on the induction and the summary to the Confucianist thrifty thought's characteristic, and then carries on the appraisal to it in order to abandon its dregs and take its essence.The second part, based on the whole grasp to the Chinese tradition Confu-cianist thrifty view, the paper unearths its contemporary value in the deep lev-el. The paper respectively elaborates its economic value, the political value, the ecological value as well as the ethical value in detail.