As Lai Chih-chang, a lecturer in architecture at the Oriental Institute of Technology, notes: "The spirit of the thatched cottage is not in its form, but in the philosophy of life of those poets who opposed the squalor of politics and returned to nature and to a simple life."
「草堂精神不在形式，在於詩人們對抗政治的不清，回歸自然、返璞歸真的生命態度」，南亞工專建築科講師賴志彰指出。