中国人民的生活过去一直是我极为感兴趣的，我也曾尽力去了解我所了解的中国生活中的东西，尤其是中国的宗教智慧——孔子、孟子、老子的著作及其注疏。我也看过中国的佛经和欧洲人写的关于中国的书。近来，在欧洲人，其中在很大程度上是俄国人对中国施行了那些暴行之后，中国 The Chinese people’s life has always been of great interest to me. I have also tried my best to understand what I know about Chinese life, especially the religious wisdom of China - Confucius, Mencius, and Lao Tzu’s writings and their annotations. I have also read books about China written by Chinese Buddhist scriptures and Europeans. Recently, after the Europeans, to a large extent, were the atrocities committed by the Russians against China, China