Zhu Geliang instructions to his nephew on life matters; Fits to hang both at working space and home.
“You should create a great ideal (dream), follow your ancestry, limit your desires (lust), remove melancholy from your chest, follow your dreams and create the world you want it to be, never stop to encourage yourself, don't get upset because of small things, be modest and learn widely, until you become broad-minded and generous, even if it doesn't bring you a promotion at work or get a new post, its doesn't harm your wonderful dreams and ideals, what you should worry is about how to reach your dreams; If your will is not strong enough, let yourself into local habits, traditions and contacts, lead a vain and humdrum life, it will always be a simple life or even worse.”
Its written in a semi-cursive script. Semi-cursive script is a cursive style of Chinese characters. Because it is not as abbreviated as cursive, most people who can read regular script can read semi-cursive.
Also referred to in English both as running script and by its Mandarin Chinese name, xíngshu, it is derived from clerical script, and was for a long time after its development in the 1st centuries AD the usual style of handwriting.
Some of the best examples of semi-cursive can be found in the work of Wang Xizhi (321-379) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
