For now, there is no need to combine the ideas of 2000 years ago with those of the present, and no need to talk of "blue" (outgoing, oceanic) and "yellow" (land-locked) cultures, presumably an allusion to the debate triggered off by River Elegy.
就目前來說，他認為把兩千年前的事與兩千年後的事攪在一起的理論，毫無必要；像《河殤》那樣虛構出一個「藍色（向外發展，海洋的）」文明與「黃色（安土重遷的）」文明也無濟於事。