Through the book, Mr. Gu tried to show how and why men, foreigners don’t really understand the real Chinamen and the Chinese language. He explained that a man must be deep, broad and simple so that he can understand the real Chinamen and Chinese civilisation. Mr. Gu provided examples of three foreign scholars from American, English and German who lack those three characteristics. In his book, American people, as a rule, are broad, simple, but not deep.While English, as a rule, are deep, simple, but not broad. Germens are deep, broad, but not simple. However, French people have to a preeminent degree a quality of mind which is necessary in order to understand the real Chinamen and Chinese civilisation. Mr. Gu used these examples to show that the study of Chinese, of Chinese books and Chinese literature is not only a hobby for sinologues, but for anyone who has those three qualities.

I understand the reason why China has such a long history, it’s because Chinamen are deep, broad, simple and they are of delicacy. And that’s the spirit of the Chinese people.