一个形象生动的比喻有时胜过万语千言。一些大学者运用的通俗比喻,更是让人耳目一新。一种有趣的现象是,普通人对许多学者的了解,往往并不是读他那些皇皇巨著,而是不经意间读到或听到他“创作”的一个“俗不可耐”的比喻,就让人牢牢记住了他的名字。我第一次知道辜鸿铭的大名,就是来自于他那著名的“茶壶 A vivid metaphor sometimes trumps thousands of words. The popular metaphor used by some college students is even more refreshing. An interesting phenomenon is that the ordinary people’s understanding of many scholars often does not read his masterpieces of the emperor but rather inadvertently reads or hears a ”vulgar“ metaphor of his ”creation.“ , Let people firmly remember his name. The first time I knew that Gu Hongming’s name was derived from his famous ”teapot."