曾经在杂志上看到这样一段话:虚荣心与物质文明的进步成正比,物质文明越发达,人类的虚荣心就越重。如果这一观点成立的话,可以得出这样的结论:现代人比古人的虚荣心更重,因为现代社会的物质水平无疑比古代社会更加丰富。那么,处于物质贫乏状态的古人是不是就没有虚荣心了呢?其实,古人也同样有虚荣心,古人的虚荣心与现代人相比,有过之而无不及。沈括在《梦溪笔谈》中记载了这样一件事:江 Once saw in the magazine this passage: vanity and material civilization is proportional to the progress, the more developed the material civilization, the more vanity of human beings. If this view is true, one can conclude that the modern people are more vaunted than the ancients, because the material level of modern society is undoubtedly more abundant than the ancient society. So, in the material state of the ancients there is no vanity it? In fact, the ancients also have the same vanity, the ancients vanity and modern compared to nothing. Shen Kuo in “Meng Xi Bi Tan” recorded such a thing: Jiang