Why does traditional culture promote abstinence?

Traditional culture advocates abstinence, the main purpose is not to prohibit desire, not to prohibit the birth of children, but to reduce the material desires of people, as for the reduction of material desires, whether other desires are also reduced, that is incidental.

Just as "color is not different from air, air is not different from color, color is air, air is color," people now interpret "color" as female sex, beauty, in fact, narrow. In fact, "lust" is not the meaning of "lewdness" and sexual abuse, but in ancient times, it was excessive, and of course, there is also the meaning of abuse. As the saying goes, "there is no beauty or evil, too much is a disaster", that is, no matter what, do not overdo it, leave room for everything, so that you can do the opportunity to turn back.

The temptation of beautiful women as long as the health of men are moved, unless the male has a disease, the gods are difficult to avoid, but we are different animals with high IQ, can control themselves, will not lose control of the other animals, and other animals are different, regardless of the matter of heart, as long as the control of the heart of how to think is normal.

The Qian Gua also has a "dragon has regret", is also the meaning of this, as "the moon is full, the water is full is overflowing", the opposite is true, you have eaten enough, and then half a catty of beef you try?

Why does traditional culture reduce human desire? That's because in an agricultural society, the productivity level of the society is very low, 9 out of 10 people are engaged in agriculture, in order to feed a person to engage in ruling, culture, trade and commerce, etc. So as the ruling class, the cultural elite, he will advocate the whole society, specifically farmers do not want to waste, to reduce the desire. But for the ruling class, the commercial class, in fact most of the time, most of them never abstained from lust, they were very luxurious.

In modern society, consumption is prevalent, and not because the world is going downhill, but because we have too much production capacity now, most of the production capacity is in excess, and if everyone doesn't consume, then the society will fall into deflation. That's why society as a whole keeps instilling consumerism, wanting everyone to use the latest products ah, labeled with brand names, through the non-stop production, consumption, and reproduction of such a cycle, which promotes technological progress and innovation, and improves the production level of our society as a whole.