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When the granaries are full, the people follow appropriate rules of conduct, and when there is enough to eat and wear, the people know honor and shame." Proper social norms emerge from sufficient conditions for life, and disappear when conditions are absent. That is why when people of high status become wealthy, they will widely advocate moral standards, and when ordinary people become wealthy they will behave in a moral way according to their means. Where the water is deep, fish will congregate; where the mountains are vast, wild animals will gather; when people are well off, a society of compassion and righteousness will appear 去书内
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    I think people should treat this thought dialectically. Firstly ,I want to affirm the prescience of Guanzi's statement.He mentions the importance of the material culture's development.But what he stands is an era of lack of material civilization, it would inevitably have a limitation. Especially when we take today's life as an example, we will find that ,though today's Chinese material culture is booming, most our people are living in a well-off life;our spiritual culture is still on an unstable situation. The gap in national quality level is still too large. And we are hard to find a truly unified value orientation especially when face all kinds of cultural invasion or cultural infiltration. Maybe in other words, we today's life is still not up to the standard mentioned by Guanzi. The improvement of living standards has indeed brought people a higher spiritual pursuit, but do people pursue the standard of propriety and righteousness in this process? I'm afraid that today our people's highest value of life is different from that of ancient time. Every era has its own moral value standard, the connotation of propriety and righteousness may also become more and more different with the development of material civilization.

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