After reading this book,i know that the book attempts to explain the Chinese spirit and to show the value of Chinese civilization.

   To measure the value of a civilization, in my opinion, the ultimate question we have to ask is not whether it has been built and how great the city can be built, how luxurious the buildings are, how beautiful the roads are; nor how beautiful and comfortable the furniture it has owned and can produce, how smart and useful the equipment, tools and instruments are; nor even how useful they are. See what research institutes it has created, what arts and sciences it has created.

   "When a person learns to enjoy loneliness, loneliness becomes a kind of beauty." Mr. Lu Xun once said, "Did the Chinese lose their self-confidence?" During the depression years of the late Qing Dynasty when current affairs changed, the country suffered hardships and the wind of Westernization swept across the Central Plains, many people were confused: the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were lost; the peasants who lost their land were lost; millions of intellectuals in China were also lost, too many things, too many choices, and exactly where to go. ... Gibran said he liked extreme people, and he was extreme people himself.Gu Hongming could have chosen not to be such a person. At that time, many people regarded him as a "clown" and the so-called "heresy". 

  But every person's life must be adhered to, adherence is doomed to pay a certain price, Mr. Gu is willing to use his life "weird" words and deeds to adhere to his belief in China's vast traditional culture, so he is doomed not to be understood by the Chinese people at that time.

18E38 许叶