芥川龙之介在中国旅行时公然漠视民众的反日情绪,刻意回避所见之现实,却沉陷于古典中不愿自拔,抚今追昔,大发古人之幽思。他的这种反常表现很令人怀疑他来华的身份:究竟是记者还是作家?其实,他的这种身份迷失恰好形象地表现了那个时代的日本人对中国微妙而复杂的典型心态:对古典的尊崇与对现实的蔑视。 Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s visit to China blatantly ignores the public’s anti-Japanese sentiment, deliberately evade the reality seen, but sink in the classic reluctant to excuse me, recalling the ancient dwarf. His anomalous performance is very doubtful of his identity to China: whether it is a reporter or a writer? In fact, his loss of his identity just vividly represented the delicate and complex typical mentality of the Japanese people of that era: Classical reverence and contempt for reality.