And was Ah-Q's "victory in spirit" just a means of survival for poor farmers under feudalism, or was it pointing to an ethnic trait of the Chinese? Opinions varied.
然而阿Ｑ的精神勝利法到底只是基層農民面對封建勢力的求生之道，還是擴而專指中國人的民族性，也引起不同看法。