It is cultural base in legal society to strengthen citizens right consciousness.

"Self-favoritism" and "cherishing oneself" in the system of Yangzhu s thought contains the extremely precious individual standard and right consciousness.

The author, on analyzing the reasons of the blunted rights awareness in the traditional Chinese society, seeks ways and modes to promote the cultivation of rights awareness for the present age for the purpose of facilitating China towards the era of rights and accelerating our course of constructing a country ruled by law.

From the viewpoint of rights awareness,the cultural barriers which realizing the patients right has encountered mainly the influences of centralized social structure,the Confucian culture and the traditions of legal culture of China affect on the demands of individual rights.

In the law-related education of citizen,we should attach importance to fostering awareness of right,or culturing awareness of obligation.

College students awareness of rights can be divided into the following five aspects: the awareness of the right subject,the awareness of the right cognition,the awareness of the right realization, the awareness of the right salvation,the awareness of the right claim.

Undoubtedly, people s weak awareness of right originates in the negative impact from the long traditional culture.

Whether or not citizens commonly have the consciousness of rights and, whether or not law law enforcement personnel gen-erally have the consciousness of rights and carry out laws in earnest, exert important influences on the rule of law.