After three years in the city, they will forget how to till the soil and cultivate silkworms; after ten years, they will not recognize their clansmen .... "Now, given the widespread impact of Western individualism, the individual is more highly valued than the extended family.
住省城三年後，不知有農桑；十年後，不知有宗族」… …。西方的個人主義思潮影響所及，更使得家族價值被個人價值取代，成為現代人的思考主軸。