中国人的精神2.4

But revenons à nos moutons. Is then written Chinese a difficult language? My answer again is, yes and no.I say, written Chinese, even what I have called the full court dress Chinese, the classica majora Chinese, is not difficult, because, like the spoken or colloquial Chinese, it is extremely simple.Allow me to show you by an average specimen taken at random how extremely simple, written Chinese even when dressed in full court dress uniform, is.The specimen I take is a poem of four lines from the poetry of the T' ang dynasty describing what sacrifices the Chinese people had to make in order to protect their civilisation against the wild half civilised fierce Huns from the North.The words of the poem in Chinese are: