Qi manufactured many kinds of iron tools, and the people there put more stress on the power of intelligence and less stress on morality, thus provid ing fertile ground for government figures like Guan Zhong or thinkers fond of debate like Yanzi. The Qi were quick to change, combative, cruel, and full of vitality. Chinese history would later select Lu culture.
齊文化已帶有不少工商業色彩，他們鑄造了許多鐵器，強調智力而不太強調道德，孕育出像管仲這樣的大政治家、像晏子這樣善辯的智者，他們善變、好鬥、殘酷、充滿生命力，後來的中國歷史選擇了魯文化。