Chapter 113 comment

Premier Zhou Enlai called Ma Yifu "my country's contemporary master of physics". Xiong Shili seldom praised others, but he praised Ma Yifu and said: "Mr. Ma is far-sighted." He Lin commented: "Mr. Ma possesses the three kinds of knowledge of poetry, ritual, teaching and philosophy that Chinese orthodox Confucians should have. He can be said to be the only remaining achievement representing traditional Chinese culture." , see the great righteousness, be harmonious and understand, without hindrance." Liang Shuming called him "a thousand-year national quintessence, a generation of Confucianism".

Feng Zikai commented on Ma Yifu: "No matter what the problem is, Mr. Ma has the highest and most original insights about the world or the world. He confirms the words of the ancients, no matter what book, he recites the original text." Master Hongyi said to Feng Zikai about Ma Yifu: "Mr. Ma knows it from birth. Suppose there is a person who reads books from birth; and reads two books a day (he uses his index finger and thumb to indicate the thickness of the book), and after reading, he will Recite, read to Mr. Ma's age, what he has read is not as much as Mr. Ma's."

Zhu Weizheng believes that "Ma Yifu is a cultural despotism in essence", "He presides over the Fuxing Academy, and he can't listen to any different opinions. Even He Changqun resigned as a professor at Zhejiang University and went all the way to Leshan to help him realize his ideal of running a school, but he was treated like a retainer. If you don’t agree with him, just slam it and go away. Is it ‘not to do something’? The example of Xiong Shili’s ‘the same way but not collusion’ with him shows that this man is essentially a cultural despotism.” .