But it is not only foreigners who make this mistake. Mou believes that Chinese also stop at superficial objects in looking at Chinese culture, and ignore the traditional spiritual side of Chinese culture.
不只是外國人不瞭解，牟先生認為我們自己對於中國文化，也一直停留在器物的層次，以及對過去的文化「業績」，抱著「數家珍」的心理看待他們，反而忽略了對於中國傳統精神面的認識。