Ngan Siu Mui's Running-Cursive script calligraphy — 2010
Zhuangzi [Horses's Hoofs]
Inscription
Horses, when living in the open country,
eat the grass, and drink water.
When pleased, they intertwine their necks
and rub one another.
When enraged, they turn back to back
and kick one another.
This is all that they know to do!
However we put the yoke on their necks,
with the moonlike frontlet displayed on all their foreheads.
Then they know to look silly askance, mouths,
and to filch the reins, to curve their necks,
to rush viciously,
trying to get the bit out of their mouths,
and to filch the reins.
In this way, the horse's intelligence can put it
in a position of confrontation with humans.
This is Bo Le's fault.
Ngan Siu Mui in Montreal
Cursive Script
Chinese Paper and Ink
Scroll, 72x138cm
Collection
Moke Art Exhibition Institute, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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