1994年9月20日,在秋高气爽的古都北京,为期四天的中国外国文学学会第五届年会拉开了帷幕。学会副会长叶水夫主持开幕式,副会长季羡林致开幕辞。季羡林简要回顾了东西方文化的发展进程,阐明东西方在思维方式、人与自然关系等方面的差异性,认为只有东方文化方可拯救人类,提倡弘扬以“天人合一”为精髓 On September 20, 1994, in the autumn and autumn in Beijing, the four-day Chinese Foreign Literary Society’s fifth annual conference kicked off. Vice President Ye Shui-fu presided over the opening ceremony and Vice-President Ji Xianlin delivered the opening speech. Ji Xianlin briefly reviewed the process of the development of eastern and western cultures, clarified the differences between eastern and western ways of thinking, the relationship between man and nature, and held that only oriental culture can save human beings and promote the development of “harmony between man and nature” as the essence