The more I read, the more I realize how little I know about Chinese culture. The topics in this small book are not always accessible to me. Also because of the era when it was written, there are lots of samples from Chairman Mao, which though well written, still feel awkward to see them everywhere, eclipsing and outnumbering poems from more established poets. It made me wonder as Chairman Mao seems to love Chinese culture and obviously had quite good education about it, why would he be so determined to destroy it, and along with it generations of intelligentsia.