360 lines are different, but they can be roughly divided into four categories: scholars, agriculture, industry and commerce. Even in modern times, this is still the case. What is a "scholar" is mainly what we now call civil servants and personnel within the system. What is "agriculture"? In ancient times, it was naturally agriculture, but it should refer to the work of "creating wealth", such as agriculture, manufacturing and other real economies.
What is "work"? In ancient times, it refers to craftsmen. Their role is to improve farm tools and tools to improve agricultural production efficiency, or to protect our wealth by making weapons such as bows and arrows and slingshots. Today, it may be our inventors, scientists and so on. What is "business"? Generally speaking, it means that a person "transfers wealth" and gains profits by buying low and selling high and transporting products.
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What needs to be emphasized here is that in today's society, influenced by some concepts, we are in a social atmosphere where money worship is rampant, so when it comes to "business", we often regard it as a "capitalist" and wish to eat meat and hide it and "hang a street lamp". In fact, "business" has existed since ancient times, and it monopolized one of "scholars, farmers and businesses".
Such a way of dividing classes purely by money has nothing to do with China's cultural point of view, and it is even easy to cause social tears and mutual hatred, thus introducing society into infinite struggle. Confucius said: "A gentleman loves money and takes it wisely", which shows that he is not against "wealth" but against "ill-gotten wealth". His disciple Zi Gong, Shi Fu. If money is used to divide classes, I'm afraid he can't escape the experience of "hanging street lamps".