Why is ethics the core of China's traditional spiritual culture?

Adapting to the small-scale peasant economy, China has long formed a social paradigm with patriarchal clan system as the link and isomorphism of family and country. Under this social paradigm, people pay more attention to the relationship between people than the relationship between people and nature. This makes ethics occupy a very important position in social spiritual culture and become a yardstick to measure everything or behavior. It can be said that all fields of China's traditional spiritual culture are stained with strong ethical colors, such as articles that emphasize "morality", music that emphasizes "enlightenment" and the history of "evil and evil". In this sense, ethics is indeed the core of China's traditional spiritual culture.