社会风气的好坏,不仅标志着一个社会文明程度的高低,而且还影响社会良好道德环境的生成。在东汉中后期,当时的人们或求取功利,或讲究浮伪,遂导致社会趋于畸形,社会风气日益败坏。因此,王符在其所著的《潜夫论》一书中,对东汉中后期日益败坏的社会风气给予了深刻的揭露和批判,并提出了以德化和法治来改变当时的社会风气。 The quality of social ethics not only marks the level of a social civilization, but also affects the formation of a good moral environment in society. In the middle and later Eastern Han dynasties, the people at that time either sought utilitarianism or paid attention to falsification, thus causing the society to degenerate and the social atmosphere increasingly deteriorating. Therefore, Wang Fu, in his book “Qian Fu Lun,” profoundly exposed and criticized the increasingly corrupt social ethos in the middle and later Eastern Han Dynasty. He proposed that morality and the rule of law should be changed to change the prevailing social ethos.