As written in Introduction to the Cultural History of China: "With the stability of centralized government and the establishment of civil administration, political problems were gradually resolved. But the end of equal distribution of wealth within farming settlements, and the burgeoning of commercial enterprise, led many people to focus on the issue of society's widening economic gap."
《中國文化史導論》指出，有漢一代，統一政府穩定，文治制度建立，政治問題逐漸解決，而農村均產破壞，工商企業大興，社會經濟貧富不均的狀況，才因此成為一般人目光注意的集中點。