关键词: 传统社会,收入分配思想,平均思想,富民思想,当代价值

Abstract: The mainstream opinion of the traditional Chinese income distribution thought is “equality” and “pursuing wealth”. “Equality” is the most important means to ensure social equity and stability, while “pursuing wealth” is the necessary social form to promote the rapid development of social productive forces, which is to evaluate the maintenance of individual private possessions based on the equal distribution of personal income, i.e., the social fairness, therefore it is a wealth pursuing behavior to develop private wealth. The ideas of “equality” and “wealth” are the direct reflection of the two standards in the traditional society, i.e., the social justice and the equalization of personal distribution, both have important practical value. Today China has become the world’s second largest economy; the target of “a part of people becoming richer first” has been achieved, now it is time to solve the problem of “common rich”. Only by comprehensively summing up the historical experience of managing the state affairs, can the contemporary issue of “equality” and “wealth” be reasonably solved, so as to realize the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of Chinese nation.

Key words: traditional society; income and distribution thought; the average thought; thought of enriching people; contemporary value