In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
