"Actually, the different tax systems of the governments are also one of the reasons for the disparity in the scale of charitable giving between China and the West. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info? (? ([[In order to encourage charitable donations, Western countries have stipulated a higher pre-tax deduction ratio for charitable donations by individuals or companies, that is, the vast majority of charitable donations can enjoy tax deductions, which greatly increases the enthusiasm of individuals and enterprises to make charitable donations. Sister Lu, it seems that our country still has no policy in this regard, right? ”

Lv Dayu said: "My sister is right, our country has not yet formulated preferential policies in this regard, but I believe that such a policy will be formulated sooner or later." By the way, Shirley, in Western countries, are the main body of charitable donations mainly enterprises or individuals? ”

Shirley said: "Sister Lu, let's take a look at the structure of Chinese and Western charitable donations. According to relevant research, more than 75% of charitable donations in the United States come from individuals, while only about 5% of charitable donations from enterprises, while in Huaxia, charitable donations from individuals are less than 1o%, and most of the charitable donations come from the government and enterprises and institutions. ”

Lu Dayu said: "Girl, do you want to take the test for my sister?" Let me tell you, you can't be difficult for your sister. Of course, this question shows that the people's sense of charity in Huaxia is still relatively weak, right? ”

"That's right."

"Sister Shirley, why is there such a big gap between Huaxia and Western society on the issue of charity?" Lu Dayu asked.

"It must have something to do with their philanthropic histories. In the West, as early as the ancient Roman era, that is, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty of the Huaxia Kingdom, a relatively systematic system of donations, bequests, and gifts was formed and developed, which had a profound impact on charitable donations in later generations. ”

"Wow, the history of philanthropic giving in the West is so long."

Shirley said: "In fact, the history of charitable donations in our Huaxia Kingdom also has a long history, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the subsequent Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist cultures also contain rich ideas of charitable donations. ”

"Wow, I didn't expect our country to have such a long history of charitable giving?"

"However, in the Confucian culture, which has dominated the history of the Chinese Kingdom, philanthropy is often only used as a means of 'self-cultivation', and there is not much attention and concern for the exhibition of charity itself. In addition, the officials of the past dynasties were not enthusiastic about the exhibition of charity from the purpose of maintaining their dominant position, therefore, in such a historical background, the charitable donations of Huaxia were mainly based on individual charity, which was relatively scattered, and did not form a unified and relatively perfect charitable donation system, which led to the fact that the charity work of Huaxia has not been able to form a scale so far, which has to be said to be a pity. ”

Lv Dayu said: "My sister is right, we often see some descriptions of charity in ancient China and modern society in some historical documents, film and television works, which are nothing more than the government, temples, and wealthy families opening warehouses to help the victims and providing porridge and food, etc., which are basically some scattered acts of charity, so they are also called 'soup kitchen' or 'porridge'." ”

Shirley said: "Oh, the terms 'soup kitchen' or 'soup porridge' are very vivid. In fact, the reason why philanthropy in the West is so successful is closely related to the tremendous role played by the church. ”

"Oh, you mean, charity has something to do with religion?"

Shirley said, "That's right. Medieval European churches were huge, with a large number of believers, and their power was very strong, and they carried out a wide range of charitable giving activities throughout the Western world under the call of "Christ's love", and the scale became larger and larger, so that the philanthropic atmosphere spread rapidly in Western society. Even after the decline of the church's power, people's enthusiasm for charitable giving remained undiminished, so the role of the church in vigorously promoting the continuous development of philanthropy in Western society cannot be ignored. ”

Lv Dayu said: "Wow, I didn't expect Western religion to play such an important role in the development of charity, on the other hand, our religion in China, although there are many famous sayings, such as the Buddha's 'cut meat to feed the eagle, sacrifice one's body to feed the tiger'; Guanyin Bodhisattva's 'great compassion, help the suffering'; Buddhism advocates 'watch and help each other', 'compassion for the cherish', 'do good deeds and accumulate virtue'; Taoism advocates 'accumulate merit, compassion for things', 'the merciful, The root of all goodness' and so on, can be said to be well-known and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but their role in promoting the Chinese national charity exhibition is very lackluster, I don't know what the reason is? ”

Shirley said: "In fact, the Chinese religion still plays a certain role in the world of charity, the reason why the effect is not great, there should be two reasons, one is that there are too many myths and legends, such as Buddha, Bodhisattva, Lao Tzu, etc., although people worship it as a god, but myths and legends are difficult to arouse people's enthusiasm for charity. Second, at that time, the influence of the religion of the Chinese State among the general public was not extensive enough, and their philanthropic discourse was not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Third, although religion has played a certain role in charity in the history of the Chinese Kingdom, on the whole, they still talk too much and do little, and do not motivate people. In these respects, it is too far from Western religions. ”

Lu Dayu asked, "How to solve this problem?" What are the comments and suggestions for the girl? ”

Shirley said: "Actually, Huaxia has unique conditions to solve the problems in charity, because Huaxia has a very efficient political system, and if you want to solve a certain problem, you will soon achieve the goals set, which is difficult for any system in the world to do, such as ......"

"Shirley, don't the people of the United States advocate their own democratic and liberal system every day? Why did you, a Mi countryman, sing the opposite? Lu Dayu said.

Shirley said, "Sister Lu, you must not believe those things. When did the United States ever be democratic? Looking at the difference between whites and blacks, how has racial discrimination ever been eliminated? When did the United States have freedom of speech? So far, there have been a number of young people who jokingly shot the president of the United States who have been caught in prison and sentenced......"

"Isn't the United States the most free speech? How could such a thing happen? ”

Shirley said: "Actually, there is no absolute freedom, these things are used to deceive people. What I just said is that the political system that the West prides itself on is a very inefficient system......"