Conflict And Adjustment Between Traditional Frugality And Modern Consumption

Under the background of social transformation, our country has completed preliminary the transformation, namely from the planned economy to the market economy. And our country has entered the stage of the market economy’s gradual perfection. At this time, people’s consumption concept has changed dramatically. Traditional consumption concept is impacted; the modern consumption concept began to rise. So, the concept of thrift consumption and modern consumption is conflicting dramatically, these conflicts and contradictions have affected people’s social life.Since the 18 th session of the party, General Secretary XiJinping has instructed to practice strict economy and combats waste. It makes people reignite the passion of advocating the thrift and the conflict of traditional thrift concept and modern consumption concept has become the one of the focus. Diligence and thrift as a kind of traditional virtue, reflects directly self-cultivation. We should inherit and promote the virtue. However the transformation of economic system makes the social economy develop fast and improve the people’s living quality. People’s consumption concept is gradually shifting from thrift-oriented pattern into enjoyable and luxurious one. Therefore, the behavior of excessive thrift and excessive which conflicts with the proper traditional thrift concept appears. This causes not only the upset of people’s mind to some degree, but also rejects the sound and rapid development of national economy and the building the socialist harmonious society. In order to change the state, adjusting the conflict is needed. In the process of the adjustment, the concepts of civilized consumption, rational consumption and green consumption should be set up, the principles of fair consumption, proper consumption and sustainable consumption should be insisted. According to the good consumption environment established by the government, people can build up the proper consumption concept, at the same time, the traditional thrift concept should be innovated and give people a clear value direction. Finally, thrift becomes common and drives the building of the socialist harmonious society.