In Yesoupuyan, Xia Jingqu deified the hero Wen Suchen with various kinds of literary devices in terms of his ambition, accomplishment, personality and achievement: hence the clearing-up of the suspense over the character s humanity, personality, and fate and the degradation of the work s textual value.

In YESOUPUYAN, feudalist idealism spirit is synthesized, together with the absorption of the research results by scholars through ages.

There are some characteristics about the fieldwork of anthropology.

The controversies over the anthropological village studies urge anthropologists to continuously reflect on the theories and methods of anthropological fieldwork.

"Area Studies" is characterized as following: analyzing the "area" as a whole, not a divided part of areas: an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach; contemporaneous nature of research agenda; fieldwork based on anthropological approach.