Albert Einstein regarded China as the poorest nation on earth, and his evaluation was extremely low

Albert Einstein regarded China as the poorest nation on earth, and his evaluation was extremely low

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and graduated from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. As a modern physicist and Nobel laureate in physics, his theories laid the foundation for the development of nuclear energy, ushered in a new era of modern science and technology, and is known as the greatest physicist after Galileo and Newton.

In 1922, Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei and others invited the world-class scientist Albert Einstein to China. However, when Einstein came to China, his diary was full of disappointment with Chinese culture and disparagement of the Chinese people.

He depicts Chinese eating like Europeans going to the toilet in the woods, children looking dull and dull, and Chinese more like robots than normal people. He also claimed that China is the poorest country in the world, and the people are treated worse than cattle and horses, and life is simple and vicious.

These statements feel unacceptable and sad, and one can't help but wonder why a world-class scientist would have such a negative view of a country and people with a history of thousands of years of civilization.