自宗法制社会以来,中国社会的经济基础即以深耕细作的小农经济为主。这种自给自足的农耕文明是以家族血缘关系维系整个社会的,表现为家族制度森严,等级观念极强,人伦关系的秩序有度,从而构成了群体伦理本位文化。即每个人首先不是作为一个独立的人而存在,而是作为群体的一分子而存在。个人对于社会、家族整体而言是一种无条件服从式的关系,表现为君君臣臣、父父子子和仁义礼智信等伦理道德观念。 Since the founding of the legal system society, the economic foundation of Chinese society has been dominated by the small-scale peasantry in which cultivation has been intensively pursued. This kind of subsistence farming civilization maintains the whole society by the kinship of the family. It shows the orderly system of the family system, the strong hierarchical concept and the human relations, thus forming the group ethics culture. That is to say, not everyone exists first as an independent person, but as a part of a group. The individual is an unconditional obedient relationship to the society and the family as a whole. It manifests as the concept of ethics and morality such as the monarch, the father and son and the righteousness and righteousness.