Another is a certain "nouveau-riche" mentality in questions of taste. On seeing green wallpaper matched with a purple ceiling in the home of one well-to-do family here, a foreign friend of Dr. Lai Sheng-ch'uan remarked, "You Chinese know how to make money, but you don't know how to spend it!"
戲劇博士賴聲川的外籍朋友看到有些富豪之家貼著綠色壁紙、配上紫色天花板，十分懷疑中國人對顏色的判斷能力，不禁搖頭嘆道：「你們懂得賺錢，卻不懂得花錢！」