People don't think it's interesting. They just put some cheap gifts such as fruit in front of the gods and give good things to those who help them. China people always pay attention to pragmatism, and even the worship of God is utilitarian in nature, in order to pray for God to bless them. Westerners repent before God in order to seek peace of mind. As a result, the goal of gift-giving turned from God to man. Since Confucius, "ceremony" has been an important part of Confucianism, and gift-giving is the essence of "ceremony". Dai Sheng, a Confucian scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, devoted himself to studying the "ceremony" in Confucianism and formulated the highest principle of gift-giving: reciprocity. Dai Sheng said in the Book of Rites Quli: Rites are reciprocal, going without coming is indecent, and coming without going is indecent. In fact, Confucius has shown a wonderful reciprocity. It is recorded in The Analects of Confucius that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius and Yang Huo had different political views. Yang Huo wanted to see Confucius, but Confucius avoided it. Yang Huo thought of a way to send someone to send Confucius a roast suckling pig when he was not at home. Yang Huo knew that Confucius liked roast suckling pigs best, and he advocated reciprocity most. Confucius was in a dilemma. He really wants to eat suckling pigs, and he doesn't want to see Yang Huo. He also thought of a wonderful way, focusing on equivalence, that is, balancing equivalence. Zhang San's son, Li Si, gave 500 yuan for the full moon. Zhang San must remember that when Li Si marries his daughter, he will also give it to 500 yuan, or adjust it with the change of prices. If you have seven aunts and eight aunts, you should make a small notebook, and it is indecent to lack one. If giving gifts is just a courtesy, it is a kind of etiquette. Nowadays, giving gifts is an indecent act: going instead of coming, coming instead of going. It is not etiquette, but an end; This is not etiquette, but a communication. Those who want to be promoted should give gifts; Small officials should give gifts to big officials; Students should give gifts to teachers; Businessmen should give gifts to officials; Patients should give gifts to doctors; The client wants to give the judge a gift. Give gifts at school and give gifts when looking for a job; Soldiers should give gifts and demobilized soldiers should also give gifts; Gifts should be given for medical treatment and surgery; When the township head wants to give gifts, when the county head wants to give gifts. This kind of gift is not afraid of being asked, and it is afraid that it will not be sent away; It is not too much to send more, and it is not too much to send less. It is essentially a bribe, so it is mostly in a hidden way. If you yell at the director's door with a box of gifts, you will definitely have no good fruit to eat. A short story: A heavy smoker bought two packs of "Yuxi" in the "high-end tobacco and alcohol recycling shop" in the community, and lit a cigarette and felt that something was wrong. It turns out that there are two hundred-dollar bills in each cigarette. He simply went back and bought all the remaining eight packs of cigarettes, each of which was money and made a small profit. Nowadays, the ways of giving gifts and accepting bribes are constantly updated and emerge one after another. From simple gifts to money, houses, famous paintings, stocks, performance stocks and even women. China people like to give gifts because they are not confident and have to. Imagine lying on the operating table and not giving gifts to the doctor. This self-confidence and necessity stems from the lack of rules or the randomness of rules. Fiona Fang cannot live without rules. If everyone obeys the rules, no one likes to give gifts. When there are no rules, giving gifts can increase your confidence; When there are rules that can be changed randomly, giving gifts can change the rules in your favor. Even reciprocity is a last resort, and the so-called "debt of gratitude" has become a debt burden. The real gift should be for goose feathers thousands of miles away.