The late artist Bai Namhuai, who was born in South Korea, studied in Japan, and traveled to China, made an impressive remark when comparing the national identity of China, Japan and South Korea:
Koreans are a bit like hunters, where there is prey, go wherever they go, and then settle down, once the prey runs to other places, the hunters will follow; the Japanese are probably like fishermen, although they will also go to the ocean to fish, but eventually they will return to their own ports, their own towns; and the image of Chinese non-farmers, their simplicity and diligence are innate noble qualities.
I deeply agree with this, the Koryo people have lived in jungles and grasslands since ancient times to hunt for a living, and the Yamato people have never stopped fighting with the sea. In contrast, the Chinese nation is indeed rooted in the peasants, the ancestors have been waiting for their own land for generations, hard work, endless life, even if one day left their hometown, but the heart is filled with nostalgia and homeland, the leaves fall back to the root is the life creed and life destination of every Yanhuang descendant.
No matter how the times develop, how the world changes, how science and technology and the Internet affect our lives, the national nature of a country is the result of thousands of years of accumulation and precipitation, it is both the soul of the nation and the root of the country.
