In this way, Shen discloses the essence of the tragedy that the indigenous culture and healthy natural human nature in western Hunan were destroyed by the external metropolitan economy.

To maintain the natural human nature, "childlike" and "frank", people must learn to play down the utility, reduce stress and cultivate a detached indifferent, quiet Zhiyuan realm of life.

We tend to look at nature conservation as some kind of favor that human beings are granting to the natural world.