法典的诞生,是人类文明开始成熟的标志。《德国民法典》是精英智慧的结晶,是精英理性、精英论战、精英立法的集中体现。在当代中国的编典过程中,法学人应秉承“数典不可忘祖”之古训,努力汲取《德国民法典》之精华,实现“从中心到边缘”的研究进路。 The birth of the code is a symbol of the beginning of human civilization. “German Civil Code” is the crystallization of elite wisdom, is the elite rationality, the elite debate, elite legislation focused on. In the process of compilation of contemporary China, legal scholars should uphold the old teaching that “the dictionary should not forget the ancestors,” and strive to learn the essence of the German Civil Code and realize the research path of “from the center to the periphery.”