He has borrowed the view of Western anthropologists that westerners viewed "unnatural" animals, such as the ostrich (a bird that can't fly) or the seahorse (it looks like a horse but lives in the water) as ominous. Chinese, on the other hand, looked at them positively.
在「科學發展的文化因素探討」一文中，他曾引用西方人類學者的說法，由於受舊約聖經的影響，古代歐洲人把一些反常動物，如鴕鳥是鳥類卻不能飛行，海馬似馬卻生活在水中，視為不祥之物，付予審判後處死刑。