1. It seeks truth from facts and is not ashamed of being true.

It is beautifully written, both serious and cheerful, and can give a correct understanding and evaluation of ancient and modern China.

I think this is the most authentic, profound, complete and important work on China to date.

——Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck 2 and Lin Yutang mastered humor in their English masterpiece "Small Clouds of Beijing". They used humor to criticize social reality, portray characters, and introduce new expressions and cognitive perspectives into English.

His full use of humor in his works reflects the literary grace and style of the humor master, prompting people to pay attention to the function of humor in literary creation and re-evaluate Lin Yutang's views on humor and literature.

——Wu Min, Director of the Translation Department of the School of Foreign Languages, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics 3. Lin Yutang’s masterpiece "Smoke in the Capital" is not only an epic work that describes the changing fate of a large family with the background of the great era, but also a rich cultural novel.

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Its cultural connotation is reflected in the continuous and gradual process of spiritual sublimation of human beings from the mysterious accident of fate to transcendent enlightenment, and then to the state of tolerance, sympathy and devotion.

——Liu Yong, Professor of the School of Liberal Arts of Beijing Normal University? 4. Lin Yutang’s "Small Clouds of Beijing" embodies his philosophy and his soul. In the novel, he praises a mixture of Confucianism and Taoism, or more precisely, internal Taoism and external Confucianism.

The philosophy of life is vividly expressed through the protagonist Yao Mulan and other characters.

——Zhang Xishan, editor-in-chief of the editorial board of "Journal of Shenzhen University" and part-time researcher at the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Politics at Shenzhen University 5. "Smoke and Clouds of Beijing" describes the rise and fall of several large families in the great social turmoil and historical changes, as magnificent as an epic.

At the same time, it contains extremely profound cultural connotations. It is a classic work that translates, introduces and promotes Chinese culture.

?——Yang Yan from the Editorial Department of "Journal of Shenzhen University" Extended information: Appreciation of Works Lin Yutang's prose covers a wide range of fields.

He believes that ideal prose "is prose that captures the natural rhythm of language, like chatting around the fire on a stormy evening, good at drawing, full of emotions, both solemn and humorous, explaining the profound things in a simple way, like talking about Zen with an eminent monk, like having a heart-to-heart talk with a famous person, it seems to be coherent without leaving any trace.

"It seems to be loose but not without clues. I can't stop or delete it. Reading his text is like hearing his voice, listening to his words is like seeing his person."

From the time he creatively translated the Western humour into "humor", until he claimed to be a Taoist spirit in his later years, Lin Yutang always maintained the artistic paradigm of conversation style, and took leisure humor as his style and spiritual transcendence as his stance.

Lin Yutang's prose is semi-elegant and semi-vulgar, both solemn and humorous, simple and profound, and emotional and reasonable. He often observes the world with a detached and leisurely state of mind, and uses plain words to praise beautiful articles. This creates a kind of leisurely style that uses both solemnity and humor, and private eloquence.

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His writing is natural and smooth, humorous but not absurd, and interesting in its own right.

However, sometimes it is too relaxed and loses a lot of weight.

Lin Yutang's style is related to his views on writing.

He believes: "There are two word mines in the world: one is the old mine, and the other is the new mine. The old mine is in books, and the new mine is in the language of ordinary people. Inferior artists all dig materials from the old mine.

Only advanced artists quarry materials from new mines.