如果要追溯社会保障的渊源,有着数千年连续不间断文明史的中国应当是最具代表性的国家,因为在其有文字记载的漫长历史画卷中,关于各种社会保障思想与实践活动的记载不胜枚举,一些自古有之的社会保障措施甚至一直柔性传承至今。然而,以平等、法制、共享等为基本元素的现代社会保障制度,却是现代化进程中带给人类社会的一个极为重要的制度性文明成果。德国因在19世纪80年代首创社会保险制度而成为这一制度文明的起源国,之后被其他国家所效仿。在经 If we trace the origin of social security, China, which has a history of thousands of years of uninterrupted civilization, should be the most representative country because of its long history of written records on various social security ideologies and practical activities The list goes on and on. Some social security measures that have existed since ancient times have even been handed down since then. However, the modern social security system based on equality, the rule of law and sharing is an extremely important systematic and civilized result brought to human society in the process of modernization. Germany became the country of origin of this system of civilization because of its first social insurance system in the 1880s, followed by other countries. After