Chapter 193

In this era, is it possible for families to evolve and inherit? Mencius had made a long-standing judgment on this issue. Mencius said, "the virtue of a gentleman should be cut off after five generations." That is to say, a family can reach the fifth generation at most, and a gentleman is the son of the king. At the same time, Mencius also said, "the Ze of villains will be cut off for five generations." To connect these two sentences with family inheritance means that any family will certainly change after the Five Dynasties.

In my opinion, on the one hand, we should be alert to the death of the fifth generation, but more realistically, we should not end up with the death of the second generation. For today's Chinese entrepreneurs and other families, the first problem is how to ensure that the second will not die. After five generations, don't think so much about it.

Family inheritance has a gate of life and a code. The code of family inheritance is "blood heritage". I once found my great grandfather Yi handing's posthumous work "Taiping sprouts of plants" in Hubei library. I opened it with white gloves and found a line like this: "I wish all my life to be prosperous and rich. I only wish my descendants would pay attention to politics." This is what he wrote in 1925, which means that "I" very much hope that some of my grandchildren will become a scholar and contribute to the inheritance of Chinese culture and civilization.

In the Republic of China, the Yi family renovated the Yi's martyrs' temple. When my grandfather put the statue of his ancestors on the car, it fell down and hit my grandfather on the forehead

On the head, there are drops of blood flowing out on the forehead of the statue, which become a blood bead after coagulation. It was recorded in my great grandfather's book, and now the bead of blood has reached my forehead. Therefore, the family does have a "blood heritage".

The "predestination" of unknown Tao also plays an important role in family inheritance. During the filming of "where are the guests coming from", I went to Jishou, Hunan Province with the crew. That's the place my parents knew. The Yi and Zhou families are connected. The two families have a common understanding. The Yi family knows Guo Songtao, and the Zhou family knows Zuo Zongtang. The film crew took me to a place called "tianwentai". At that time, there was a continuous drizzle. From a distance, we could see that the "tianwentai" was surrounded by mountains with waterfalls flying down. At that moment, I thought of the family's "blood heritage", the family's various life circumstances and historical upheavals intertwined. I immediately blurted out a seven unique, "mountains set up, continuous rain, between the tianwentai I ask the sky, the vicissitudes of life who wake up, a river east water hanging in front of the mountain." No one knows the vicissitudes of the world. But look at the waterfall flying down the mountain. At that moment, you will feel that it is our family, that is our nation. Our family and nation are just like the waterfall on the mountain. Even if there is an abyss in front of us, we will fly straight down. This is our future and destiny.

Now, Chinese entrepreneurs, especially private entrepreneurs, begin to struggle with the issue of wealth inheritance. In my opinion, it's not just his obsession

The inheritance of wealth, more importantly, his hard-working foundation and career need someone to take over, that is his painstaking efforts. If family inheritance is only a matter of wealth, it's better to donate. Of course, you can choose not to donate. This is the freedom of entrepreneurs.

For the proposition of family inheritance, we should first understand why it is necessary to inherit, and what if it is not? Then what to pass, and finally how to pass. Family inheritance should inherit family spirit and entrepreneurship. An artist, even a folk artist, also faces the problem of family inheritance. He also needs to inherit his craft. Behind the inheritance of his craft is his pursuit and the embodiment of his value.

It is not easy for China's private entrepreneurs to be trapped by our system. Historically, China's national capital has been hit again and again. The strategy adopted by the ancient ruling class was not to allow you to be big. Why is the curse of "no more than three generations rich" popular? The fundamental problem is that our national values do not allow you to get rich. Just imagine, if you are richer than the emperor, the emperor must copy your home. The ancient rulers also had no mechanism to stimulate reproduction. Where has all the wealth gone? It's all used in extravagance and antiques. When all the wealth goes to the black sheep, it can't be inherited. This is the crux of family inheritance.

Today, China's private entrepreneurs are not confident and calm enough, which will affect the family inheritance. As long as you earn clean money, you should stand tall and declare your glory. Of course, your wealth is not clean

I'm sorry. Now the central government is working hard against corruption. You should turn yourself in. Chinese people often say that "to be rich is not benevolent". This is a very confused idea. There are too many confused ideas in Chinese culture. Can't we achieve "to be rich is benevolent"? The world should respect those entrepreneurs who get rich by wisdom. It's unreasonable not to disrespect others just because their money comes quickly. Of course, it is also true that some entrepreneurs and the second generation of the rich are psychologically abnormal and show off everywhere. They have nothing but money and don't know "low-key luxury". Therefore, I think that entrepreneurs who get rich first, as well as the second and third generations of the rich, should learn to use money instead of being ostentatious and use your money where it should be. As long as you use your wealth moderately, reasonably and scientifically, and do something meaningful, you will win the sincere respect of the public. When you win the sincere respect of the public, you will feel that your life is happy and happy.

Family inheritance also involves the continuation of family brand. According to my observation, many entrepreneurs are entangled in the inheritance of family wealth. In fact, what they are entangled in is the inheritance of family brand. Every successful family has a family brand. The head of the family hopes that his successor, son, adopted son or even son-in-law, will inherit and use the family brand he created, and hope that this business and brand will keep pace with the times and develop continuously. Of course, this does not mean that we should inherit the style of the head of the family. There is a tradition in ancient China that when looking for a successor, one is very difficult to choose

A good standard, called Xiao, thinks that the family can not pass on to the "unfilial descendants", and many people mistakenly think it is the "unfilial son"“ What is "Xiao" and "Xiang", the ancients thought that "some son Xiao I" was good. This is not right. Why should it be like this? Otherwise, it will become "inbreeding". If the successor takes your enterprise, product and brand to a higher level, it doesn't matter that he doesn't look like you. It's good that he doesn't lose. An important way of family inheritance is charity. I had a view before that, "the inheritance of family wealth is a false proposition. If you can't spend it, donate it." Now, I want to improve this point of view. I am not taking the lead in advocating rich people's donation. To perfect this point of view means to clarify the relationship between wealth and charity. In fact, the whole meaning behind the above view is: everyone has the freedom to dispose of his legitimate income. In the current environment of public opinion, the public often confuse rights and obligations. In fact, charity is a right, not an obligation. The right is private. You can exercise it or give up it. If you donate money, you can exercise it. If you don't donate money, you can give up your right. It's legal and legitimate. You can't force a donation. Any forced donation in the name of morality is immoral. What "it is shameful to leave a huge amount of wealth after death" is a bastard. As long as this wealth is legal income, he will do whatever he likes. In addition, we should keep pace with the times and learn to do charity scientifically. Family foundation may be a feasible way for Chinese rich people to do good deeds. There are preconditions for entrepreneurs to do charity. I always advocate self-interest by benefiting others. First of all, entrepreneurs should make the enterprise bigger and stronger, provide high-quality products and services for the society, provide as many employment opportunities as possible, and provide more taxes for the government. This is the primary social responsibility of entrepreneurs. This is to benefit oneself by benefiting others. To do charity is to help others to help themselves. However, it is the business of entrepreneurs to help themselves or not. Buddhists say that there are three conditions for becoming a Buddha. The first is "self-consciousness", the second is "awareness of others", and the third is "awareness of fulfillment". Therefore, people first have to save themselves to save others. First, they have to save themselves to save others. How can people who can't save themselves save others? How can people who can't spend themselves spend others? How can people who can't manage themselves manage others? How can you educate others if you can't educate yourself? So, first of all, we should do ourselves well. In addition, I would like to remind those entrepreneurs who are willing to do charity that poverty alleviation should not only help material poverty, but also help spiritual poverty. Now many places are not only in material poverty, but also in spiritual poverty. In fact, many people who got rich first are also in spiritual poverty. Back to the family wealth inheritance itself, I think there are several strategies. The best policy is to have two duties, the middle policy is to divide and rule, and the worst policy is to die and never let go. In addition, I think there is another best policy. There are four words called "let fate decide". China's entrepreneurs really do not tangle, when you really have no way, "let fate" is the best choice. I call it the best policy because it's "downloaded" directly from God. When you have the strongest inner impulse and decide to make a choice, God must be telling you what to do. Yang Shuai's friends don't take him in, so he can't live on the street. Later, it was said that yuhaozhi had an underground boxing ring. Yang Shuai went there to fight for money and grow up in the ring. Later, Yang Shuai was appreciated by Wen Jiandong. He brought him back to Wen's family to teach him martial arts and let him be his personal bodyguard. Later, he followed long Aotian. Yang Shuai told the story again, and long Aotian knew that Yang Shuai was also a poor child. Yang Shuai said: "as for how Liang got to the provincial capital and became a hotel manager, I don't know!"