What is your favorite book by Yu Qiuyu? Why?

The Long River of Frost and Cold", in the final analysis, the best things in this book are different from other books, other books talk about history, talk about **, talk about society, and this book talks about life. But why am I not so optimistic about this book? Because Mr. Yu Qiuyu's knowledge and academic level in history, culture, society and other aspects is much higher than that of ordinary people, he can play a role in broadening readers' horizons and learning when talking about these things.

As for this aspect of life, he has his ideas, and you also have your thoughts, so the so-called role of broadening one's horizons and learning things is completely disappeared here, and the only thing left is to find resonance.

"He gave speeches on culture on some important occasions, and two or three of them are still very classic. In particular, his shortest definition of culture is: "Culture is an ecological community that contains spiritual values and lifestyles."

It creates a collective personality through accumulation and guidance. This section is arguably the most concise part of the book.

I have read Yu Qiuyu's "A Thousand Years of Sighs", and there are three things that impressed me the most in this book, the first is that he ate the most famous grilled fish in a local restaurant, and saw those locals pinch the fish ball with their hands and eat it on cakes, this way of eating made him feel disgusted, but he didn't say it directly, but said that it reminded him of the kung fu of cutting in Jiangnan, China. The second place is that when their delegation went to the Middle East, they had to wrap their headscarves, and once one of the women took the headscarf off in the car, which was blamed by the locals, who argued that the car was her private space, and the locals said that it was not okay to let them see it. The third place is that he completed the whole expedition, and when he returned to China from Nepal, he was moved to tears, and felt that China was simply too lovely compared to the places he visited.

Walkers Without Borders", this book was written at the beginning of the 21st century, about the same time as the last book of a thousand years of sighs. At least in terms of cultural development, Europe is indeed too worthy of learning for the Chinese. Even if you don't compare and use this book as a kind of introduction to understanding European countries, it is a book worth reading.

In addition, European countries are not as uniform as the Middle East, but each has its own characteristics, each has its own strengths, and after reading all the countries in Europe, it is almost equivalent to looking at dozens of civilizations under the same Western system, which is an eye-opener.

I like "Peking University Lectures" very much, this is actually another version of the Chinese context, which is still about those things of Chinese culture, or using characters as clues. However, the focus is different, this book focuses more on the interaction with students, so there are not only Yu Qiuyu's views, but also the views of Peking University students, and there is a collision of the two views, compared with the lyricism of the Chinese context, there are many more rational **.

The History of Chinese Theatre is very good, this book is a professional work, so it is also polarized to read this book, if you are not interested in literary and artistic creation, then you don't need to read this book. But if you happen to want to write something, to be a writer, a playwright, or something, then this book will be a great book for you.

The way of a gentleman, Yu Qiuyu's attitude towards Confucianism should be relatively objective, saying the advantages of Confucianism, and at the same time profoundly pointing out the disadvantages of Confucianism. It can be said that compared with those intellectuals who advocate Western ideas, he stands more from the perspective of traditional Chinese culture, and has different opinions on this point. The book is also divided into two parts, the first of which elaborates on his views on Confucianism.

The second part is some essays, which don't have much to do with Confucianism, but they have a lot to do with personality, so they don't digress. Overall, it's a good book.

I don't like any of them, it's too fake.

"Where is the Flute", "The Back of a Dynasty", "Travelers Without Borders", "A Sigh for a Thousand Years", "Notes on Mountain Dwelling", "Cultural Journey", "Fragments of Civilization", "The Long River of Frost", "Fifteen Years of Escape".

Here are a few you can take a look at:

Taoist Tower", "Mogao Grottoes", "Shayuan Hidden Spring", "Believers", "Shanghainese", "Wanderers", "The Weight of Thirty Years".

"Notes on Mountain Residence" and "Cultural Journey".