Good Ministers,Good Businessmen,Good People:Vocational Views and Inspiration of Huizhou during the Ming and Qing Dynasties
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties,Huizhou took occupations of scholar,farmer,artisan and businessmen as its main business,and all clans forbade their children to engage in"cheap jobs"such as petty official,monk,and butcher,and required their children to actively work regardless of their family's economic status,so as to avoid wan-dering the society and even embarking on evil paths.In occupational practice,the clans required their children to maintain the qualities of hard work and specialized professionalism,and put forward different ethical requirements for practitioners of Confucianism,business,agriculture,and handicrafts,respectively,with the quality of the practition-ers such as good ministers,good businessmen,and good people as the occupational ideals.The above-mentioned re-quirements on professional cognition and professional quality have important implications for the formation of current college students'employment attitude,the improvement of diligence and professional quality,the training of profes-sional will,and the establishment of professional ideals.
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