Calligrapher

Mao Zedong

Politics

Marxism

1893–1976

"Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously."

🇯🇵Hakuin Ekaku

Literature

Buddhism

1685–1768

"If you forget yourself, you become the universe."

William Morris

Literature

Socialism

1834–1896

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

Qianlong Emperor

Politics

1711–1799

"China deals with foreigners from afar only by treating them without discrimination"

🇨🇳Bai Juyi

Politics

"utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit."

"A traveller returns home after a long journey, and he sees the old city gate and hears the women and children on both banks of the river talking his own dialect. Ah, is this not happiness?"