日本学者小堀桂一郎在《东西方思想斗争》一书中,将日本文化喻为“元葱”。他形象地论述道,人们探求“元葱”的内核,即试图说明日本文化的精髓或实质究为何物时,便会将这个“元葱”层层剥开。但当全部剥尽之后,才发觉其本无什么“内核”。故人们再回首重新审视被剥下的层层葱皮 Japanese scholar Kobori Koichiro in the “East-West ideological struggle,” a book, the Japanese culture as “Yuancong ”. He vividly states that people explore the core of “Yuanchuan”, that is, when trying to explain the essence or essence of Japanese culture, the “Yuancong” layer will be peeled off. However, when all were peeled off, only to find that it had nothing “kernel ”. So people look back to re-examine the peeled layer of onion skin