作家魏雅华在他所著的《中国；红灯、黄灯、绿灯》中说，中华民族有心理性贫困这种瘤疾。最简单的说，就是对花钱怀有一种恐惧，而且“这种病痛还在误导着我们的个人消费”。这一瘤疾的根源，魏雅华认为：“对于一个一百多年来，从饥饿和战乱中历尽磨难，而在近半个世纪以来， Writer Wei Yahua said in his book “China; Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light” that the Chinese nation has such ailing disease as psychological poverty. At its simplest, there is a fear of spending money, and “it’s still misleading our personal spending.” Wei Yahua said: "For a hundred years, suffering from hunger and war, but in the past half a century,