In all fairness, the penetration of poetry into our life structure is much deeper than that in the west, and it is not something that seems to be generally regarded as interesting, but it is not important. ..... If religion has played a purifying role in people's minds, making people feel mysterious and beautiful about the universe and life, and showing considerate compassion for their own kind or other creatures, then in my opinion, poetry has replaced the role of religion in China. Religion is just an inspiration and an active emotion. China people have not found such inspiration and positive emotion in their religion. For them, those religions are just beautiful patches dotted with dark life, which are associated with disease and death. But they found this inspiration and positive emotion in their own poems. Poetry has taught China people a concept of life, penetrated into the society through proverbs and poems, endowed them with compassion, made them have infinite feelings for nature, and viewed life from an artistic perspective.
Poetry heals people's spiritual pain through the feeling of nature, and maintains the sacred ideal of Chinese civilization by enjoying simple living's education. It sometimes resorts to romanticism, which makes people detached from this hard and monotonous world and obtains an emotional sublimation; Sometimes it appeals to people's emotions such as sadness, submission and restraint, and purifies people's hearts through sad artistic reflection. It teaches people to listen to the sound of rain hitting bananas and appreciate the scenery where the smoke rising from the kitchen and the sunset glow lingering on the mountainside blend together. It teaches people to be kind and gentle to Bai Baihe on the country road; It makes people feel the feeling of missing the wanderer in the song of cuckoo; It teaches people to treat tea-picking women and mulberry-picking women with compassion, treat imprisoned and abandoned lovers, treat mothers whose sons serve in the ends of the earth, and treat people who have been traumatized by war.