The fact that they all relied on their personal experience of life to gauge wider events shows how widely shared Chinese culture is, and how evenly it has penetrated a broad area. But there are differences between north and south China that go beyond cuisine and dialect; they also have different attitudes towards the Japanese.
「以小觀大」靠的是生活經驗，可見中國文化的共通性，是多麼平均、廣泛地深入各地。但中國南北卻也有相異處，除了飲食、方言不同；對日本人的態度也有異。