President Chiang Kai-shek's Four principles for Self-Cultivation
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Category:Calligraphy
Size:Length:272 x Width:104 (cm)
Size description:179×85(畫心)
Introduction:On October 31, 1986, for the 100th birthday of President Chiang Kai-shek, a calligraphy exhibition called “The quotes of President Chiang Kai-shek” was held. With the guidance of the Ministry of Education, the Executive Yuan Cultural Construction Committee, the National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Management Office, and the Chinese Calligraphy Society. In addition to inviting famous artists to participate in the exhibition, an open competition exhibition was held, and more than 300 manuscripts were received. After inviting more than ten calligraphy masters to be judges, one hundred works were selected from the public, in response to the 100th anniversary. All works of selected and invited artists, a total of 130 pieces, were collected by the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall.
President Chiang Kai-shek’s “Four Principles for Self-Cultivation” written by Lin Hui-lan, honorable mention. "Be grateful and happy", "fear God and self-cultivate", "abide the law and strengthen oneself", "be at peace and all will be peaceful". In 1950, a year after the government moved to Taiwan, the one-party state was faced with a critical need for reform. He, himself faced the heavy responsibility of taking back a country. President Chiang Kai-shek, six days before his sixty-fourth birthday, on October 25, the 5th anniversary of Taiwan’s independence from Japan, set the Four principles as his motto for pursuing self-cultivation.
Accession Number:PT07600100
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