Quote a dictum in Chinese in a new page before my thesis in English

Question

To quote a dictum in Chinese in a new page before my thesis in English, I would like to combine the answers to the two post Add a quote to a blank page centered and How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?. I have used \documentclass{report}, and just want to typeset only a few Chinese charecter. I chose xeCJK with XeLaTeX. My code is as follows. When I compile it, it gives me some errors:

you should not be loading the inputenc package

XeTeX expects the source to be in UTF8 encoding

some features of other encodings may conflict, resulting in poor output.

! Missing $ inserted.

Could somebody help me out. I have been struggling against this problem for a long time. Please note that in this example I include all the necessary characters of concern, such as a bold dot between 语文 and 长城.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{SimSun}

\usepackage{lmodern}%for quote page
\newlength\longest

\begin{document}
\clearpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\null\vfill


\settowidth\longest{\huge 我正在认真学习的中文。}
\centering
\parbox{\longest}{%
  \raggedright{\huge%
  我正在认真学习的中文。\\
  北京；\\
  彩虹；\\
  柔中带刚。   \par\bigskip
  }
  \raggedleft\Large 《语文$\bm{\cdot}$长城》 \par%
}

\vfill\vfill

\clearpage

\end{document}

Answer 1

The simplest way is to write a separate file, say chinesequote.tex like

\documentclass[border=4]{standalone}

\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{SimSun}

\usepackage{textcomp}

\begin{document}
\Huge

\begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
  我正在认真学习的中文。\\
  北京；\\
  彩虹；\\
  柔中带刚。\\[\bigskipamount]
  \multicolumn{1}{r}{\Large 《语文\textbf{\textperiodcentered}长城》}
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

and compile it to a PDF file. Then you can simply include the PDF as graphics; this way you are not forced to change encodings or engine (also pdflatex would work):

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\clearpage

\thispagestyle{empty}

\vspace*{\stretch{1}}

\begin{center}
\includegraphics{chinesequote}
\end{center}

\vspace*{\stretch{2}}

\clearpage

\end{document}

Answer 2

Removing inputenc, which the error message explicit tells you to do, and adding bm (because you use \bm), your code compiles fine here:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
%\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage{xeCJK}
%\setCJKmainfont{SimSun} %unfortunately, I don't have the font installed, you can uncomment it, of course.
\usepackage{bm}  %<=== this had to be added, once you use \bm
\usepackage{lmodern}%for quote page
\newlength\longest

\begin{document}
\clearpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\null\vfill


\settowidth\longest{\huge 我正在认真学习的中文。}
\centering
\parbox{\longest}{%
  \raggedright{\huge%
  我正在认真学习的中文。\\
  北京；\\
  彩虹；\\
  柔中带刚。   \par\bigskip
  }
  \raggedleft\Large 《语文$\bm{\cdot}$长城》 \par%
}


\vfill\vfill

\clearpage

\end{document}

Resulting in: