1. 古代畏兽画，赖以保存者几希」，今日读者熟见的山海经图多是明清时期的绘画本。
Up-today we have too few of the original'Pictures reflecting on scare beasts', all of those were portraits in Ming and Qing Dynasty.
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2. 这种文化传统，虽然尚不成熟，但它的灵魂―带有人文主义色彩的价值观念，已经为那个时代打上了深刻的烙印，而它本身也未因朝代更迭、世道盛衰而终止，虽几希一线，终绵延不绝。正是这种绵延不绝的文化递进，为19世纪中叶以后中国近代化的全面启动，提供了原始的但却是必不可少的文化基础。
This cultural tradition was with the Humanist character, although it was not very mature, it made a deep impression of that time, furthermore, it had been lasting for a long time until after the mid of 19th century provided the original and necessary cultural foundation'of the comprehensive starting of the modernization of China.