Indirect, with infinite yearning The Chinese insistence on morality and harmony has certainly destroyed many potential happy marriages. But when, in the face of the setbacks and buffets of real life, people are forced to suppress their emotions, these filter into the deepest parts of life and give rise to a warmth and sincerity which are lasting and inexhaustible--an inward, hidden "classical love."
中國人重禮教、講和諧，固然折煞多少神仙眷屬，然而在面對現實折衝時，把情感壓抑沈澱，進入生命的底部，卻也孕育出一種溫柔敦厚、悠長無盡，內斂式的「古典之情」。