How do you evaluate Mr. Lin Yutang's "My Country and My People"?

Mr. Lin Yutang's My Country and My People consists of nine chapters, including "The Chinese People," "The Virtues of the Chinese People," "The Soul of the Chinese People," "The Ideal of Life," "The Lives of Women," "The Social and Political Life," "The Life of Literature," "The Life of the Artist," and "The Art of Living." With his objective and profound understanding of Chinese culture, he calmly analyzes the spirit and characteristics of traditional Chinese culture, and presents a true and rich image of the nation to Western society. Stability, honesty, love of nature, patience, indispensability, cunning, fertility, diligence, thrift, love of family life, peace, contentment, humor, conservatism, and lust.

Of these fifteen virtues, Lin Yutang focuses on four: simplicity, love of nature, contentment, and humor. They highlight the natural simplicity, leisure and tranquil life of the Chinese. In terms of soul, the Chinese are intuitive and nature-oriented. As a result, there are rich and deep interpersonal relationships, an almost feminine softness of mind, and a lack of logical thinking and scientific spirit. The life preference that corresponds to this character and soul is a leisurely and poetic life of nature and poetry in the style of seeing the South Mountain.

The book mainly focuses on one central point--"Why Chinese people are Chinese", and objectively recounts various characteristics of Chinese people from various aspects, such as Chinese people: maturity, gentleness, pacifism, contentedness and so on. The author believes that the reason for this character is that the national psychology, national character, national thought, and national characteristics formed in the course of the historical development of the Chinese nation for thousands of years are stable, and even though Chinese culture is subject to the great impact of Western culture under the trend of today's global culture, the spirit of our national culture will not be easily changed. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.