Comrade Shuyi:

Your letter received.

You are being too modest.

We are of the same generation, not a senior-junior relationship. The attitude you have adopted is not appropriate; it should be corrected.

I have already indicated "Wuxia," and readers already know where it refers to; there seems no need for the term "Three Gorges" to appear again.

I have finished reading your writing; it stirs many emotions.

Better not write that opening.

I offer you a poem, "Roaming Immortals."[3] The piece mentioned by Kaihui[2] is not good — it is a kind of roaming immortals poem where the author himself is not inside, unlike the ancient roaming immortals poetry. But there is such a thing in lyric verse, like those on the theme of the Weaving Maid and Cowherd.

I lost my proud poplar, and you your willow;
Poplar and willow lightly soar straight up to the ninth heaven.
Asked Wu Gang what he has to offer,
Wu Gang presents his cassia wine.
The solitary Chang'e spreads her ample sleeves,
Dancing for the loyal souls in the vast, empty sky.
Suddenly news comes that the tiger has been subdued on earth,
And tears pour down in a torrential rain.

During summer or winter vacation, if you are able, please go to Bancang to look at Kaihui's grave for me.

Also, if you go to visit Zhixun's[4] grave, please convey my mourning on my behalf.

If you see Mr. Liu Wuting,[5] please convey my regards on my behalf.

If Mr. Wuting or you have any difficulties, please let me know.

Take good care of yourself for the country!

Mao Zedong
May 11, 1957

Source: Published according to *Selected Letters of Mao Zedong*, People's Publishing House, 1983.

Notes
[1] Li Shuyi (1901–1997), from Changsha, Hunan, wife of Liu Zhixun. At the time she was a Chinese language teacher at Changsha No. 10 Middle School in Hunan.
[2] Kaihui, i.e. Yang Kaihui (1901–1930), from Changsha, Hunan, Mao Zedong's wife. She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries in October 1930, and was killed in November.
[3] Refers to "Yu Meiren · On the Pillow" (*Collected Poems of Mao Zedong*, Central Party Literature Press, 1996, p. 166).
[4] Zhixun, i.e. Liu Zhixun (1898–1932), from Changsha, Hunan, an early comrade-in-arms of Mao Zedong. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1924 and was killed in September 1932 in the Honghu Revolutionary Base in Hubei.
[5] Liu Wuting (1877–1957), from Changsha, Hunan, father of Liu Zhixun.