Letter to Zheng Zhenduo[1]

(December 3, 1951)

Mr. Zhenduo,

Mr. Yao Yuqin[2] has, through Mr. Chen Shutong[3], forwarded to me a piece of Wang Chuanshan’s handwriting[4], which is said to be very rare. I am now sending it to you and would request you to keep it for me.

Wishing you good health and happiness.

Mao Zedong

December 3

(Published according to the manuscript, and included in Selected Letters of Mao Zedong.)

Notes

[1] Zheng Zhenduo, then director of the Bureau of Cultural Relics of the Ministry of Culture.

[2] Yao Yuqin, a painter.

[3] Chen Shutong, then member of the Central People’s Government and vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

[4] Refers to “Ode to the Dancing of Two Cranes” by Wang Fuzhi (commonly known as Mr. Chuanshan), a thinker of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.