Why do you say "We are all from China"?

From this unique perspective, Gu Hongming compared China people with Americans, British people, Germans and French people, highlighting the characteristics of China people:

Americans are broad and simple, but not deep; The British are deep and simple, but not broad; Germans are profound, but not simple; The French are not as deep as the Germans, as broad-minded as the Americans, and as simple as the British, but they have the sensitivity that these three peoples lack;

Only China people fully possess these four excellent spiritual qualities. It is precisely because of this that Gu Hongming said that the overall impression of China people is "tenderness" and "that kind of unspeakable tenderness".

Anecdotes of characters

1896 Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Huguang, celebrated his 60th birthday, and Shen, a gifted scholar from Jiaxing, came to celebrate his birthday. Gu Hongming talked about Chinese and Western academic systems, but Shen didn't answer. Gu Hongming was surprised and asked him why he didn't say a word. Shen said: "I understand everything you said; If you want to understand what I said, you still have to study China for twenty years! "

Two years later, Gu Hongming heard that Shen had come to visit Zhang Zhidong and immediately asked his men to move Zhang Zhidong's books into the living room. Shen Zengzhi asked Gu Hongming, "What is the purpose of moving books?" Gu Hongming said, "You ask Shen Gong which book you can recite and I can't? Which book do you know I don't know? " Shen said with a smile: "In the future, the burden of China culture will fall on your shoulders!"