This winter vacation, we had a special assignment. We required reading a book, The Spirit of the Chinese People. The Spirit of the Chinese People is a world-famous book. Its author is Gu Hongming. He is a man of the Qing Dynasty. The main purpose of this book is to reveal the spiritual life of the Chinese people and interpret the merit of Chinese culture. Since the late Qing Dynasty, quite a few countries have looked down upon China. Gu Hongming defended the dignity of Chinese culture with words. His book changed some westerners' prejudice against China. The book had also been translated in many other languages. The author compared Chinese people with people from other countries, he found that Chinese had qualities that people in other countries didn't possess: deep, broad, simple and sensitive.

The Chinese spirit originates from Chinese traditional culture. Chinese traditional culture has been precipitated for thousands of years. It contains many aspects, such as customs, festivals, Chinese Character and so on. Chinese traditional culture connects every Chinese. In the world, although China becomes more and more powerful, China is not a developed country. So we need to make more effort to establish a more prosperous country.

It's our pleasure to learn from his strong patriotism, and what's more, becoming a real Chinese, learning and carrying forward Chinese traditional culture.

All in all, The Spirt of the Chinese People is a book worth reading, I recommend you to read it.