Inscription for the Students of the Second Squad of the Second Term of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University[1]

(March 2, 1937)

Learn from Commander-in-Chief Zhu:
Be magnanimous as the ocean;
Be firm in will as steel.

[1] On March 2, 1937, the second term of the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University held its opening ceremony, at which Zhu De delivered a speech. Mao Zedong also spoke at the meeting and wrote this inscription for the students of the Second Squad.