Liao, an assistant professor of literary history at National Chung Cheng University, thinks that some of the Chinese literati were softer, warmer, and more sensitive. These writers admired the naturalness and purity of children, and so often used children to give allegorical expression to these feelings, contrasting these traits with the ambiguous nature of human affairs. They allowed themselves to take comfort in the naivete and guilelessness of children.
在中正理工學院擔任文史系副教授的她認為，有些中國文人的性格比較柔軟、溫和與感性，而且崇尚赤子之心的純真自然，故常在孩子身上寄寓這份渴望，尤其對照冷暖無常的現實與人事，他們更願意在天真、沒有機心的孩子身上，得到情感的慰藉。