Excerpt:
"In China, when we receive an inheritance we view it as the life energy of the person who has given us that money or property, whatever it is. It represents all of their love, toil and experiences. In fact, in a way it not only represents the culmination of their life’s efforts but it is an extension of the opportunities, successes and sacrifices of all of their ancestors. So when we spend some of our inheritance, it is to us as if we are spending the life energy of our ancestor(s).” As I was introduced to this new paradigm I now call the “Chinese Meaning of Money,” I came to realize that the meaning associated with financial capital is one of those intangible and invisible components of family wealth that we can pass on to our children and grandchildren.
Click to read the rest of The Chinese Meaning of Money (Seedlings-The Blog of John A. Warnick).
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