1. The debates about ancientness and modernness between Minturno and Cinthio in the Italian Renaissance and seven men of letters in the Ming Dynasty of China are the two typical ones.

2. Poorness, unique and ancientness are intrinsic attributes of Gobi desert flora in the Centre Asia.

3. Transmission of ancientness in classics translation has long been a disputable issue.

4. The debates between ancientness and modernness, inheritance and innovation, conservativeness and radicalness in the trend of thought in literature and art have been going on.

5. Whether it is necessary to reproduce the flavor of ancientness and how to realize it are controversial problems and have become the central issue which has frustrated the academic translation field.