The rise of Hunan merchants and the evolution of Hunan culture (2):

For Hunan culture, it must be transformed if it is to be inherited. The first step in transformation is to re-understand and re-discover Hunan culture. The study of Huxiang culture itself needs to be extended forward. In modern history, China’s modernization movement was started by people from Hunan. Wang Chuanshan and Tao Shu had long had the idea of ????valuing industry. Wei Yuan proposed "learning from the barbarians and developing skills to control the barbarians". Zeng Guofan launched the most industrial and commercial Westernization Movement, established the Anqing Ordnance Institute, Zuo Zongtang established the Mawei Shipyard, etc. We have not done a good study of the actions and thoughts of the Hunan people during the Westernization Movement. Zeng Guofan helped the earliest Chinese children to study in the West, and a group of his staff became China's earliest diplomats.

The research on the open culture of Hunan people should be extended. During the Reform Movement of 1898 and the late Qing Dynasty, Hunan people vigorously built mining, railways, and developed industry and commerce in order to save the country. A large number of Hunan industrialists emerged, until later, great patriots and industrialists like Fan Xudong emerged. We need to study Hunan’s industrial and commercial culture. Discovering and promoting this part of the industrial and commercial culture in Hunan culture has become an important aspect of Hunan business culture.

Most of what scholars and officials talk about about the transformation and transformation of Hunan culture is just talk on paper. As a Hunan businessman, if you want to start a business, compete, and make money, under the market economy system, you have to act according to the laws of the market, and you have to explore the laws of the market economy. You must not only explore the economic laws of the market economy, but also explore the market economy. social laws. Cultural transformation has become an inevitable choice and an inevitable attempt for Hunan businessmen. While dealing with the world and the coast of China, Hunan merchants became the most advanced representatives of Hunan culture.

Hunan people should consciously work with Hunan merchants to inherit and transform Hunan culture. Only by developing Hunan during the cultural transformation of Huxiang can we have roots, soul and characteristics. Only in this way can Hunan be cohesive and creative.

Hunan merchant culture is part of Hunan culture. The inheritance and transformation of Hunan culture can unite Hunan merchants more closely. Hunan business culture is a new culture. It talks about industry and commerce, not just agriculture. Even if it talks about agriculture, it also talks about the industrialization and industrialization of agriculture. It talks about competition, not only about fighting for dominance, but also about harmony and coexistence, both about strategy and the rule of law, about Hunan, but also about China and the world. It talks about nature and science, emphasizing transforming oneself in transforming nature, transforming the relationship between people, and transforming society and politics. To this end, we must combine the Hunan people's feelings of caring about the world, the spirit of pursuit of exploration, the approach of seeking truth from facts, the spirit of daring to be the first in the world, the tenacious personality and the spirit of reform and opening up in the new era, to achieve a harmonious and win-win situation. The spirit of humanism and tolerance, the spirit of democracy and the rule of law are combined to combine the modern chamber of commerce civilization with the modern corporate system and corporate culture to form a new Hunan business civilization.

Combine the traditional Huxiang culture with the transformed Huxiang culture, combine farming culture with industrial and commercial culture, combine economic development with social progress, combine ecological civilization with industrial civilization, and form A new culture and a new civilization will be a new resource for the rise of Hunan merchants and the development of Hunan. Hunan businessmen and Hunan people should continue the thousand-year ideological exploration of Hunan people under the historical conditions of reform and opening up, and make new contributions to the innovation of Chinese thought.