Inscription of an Excerpt from Lu Xun’s “Self-Mockery”[1]

(October 1945)

Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers;
Head-bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.

Recorded words of Lu Xun.

Mao Zedong

[1] On the ninth anniversary of Lu Xun’s death in October 1945, Mao Zedong personally inscribed this poetic line by Lu Xun.