Inscription for Qu Xianwen[1]

(January 18, 1942)

Old but vigorous.

To Comrade Qu on his sixtieth birthday.

Mao Zedong

[1] This inscription was written by Mao Zedong at a tea party held by the Central Administration to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Qu Xianwen, who had come to Yan'an to practice medicine after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan.