Page 41 - Are You Future Ready?

Chapter One - To Know the Present
Through the Past

Sideline

/ China has a "millennial generation"
long time ago? /

Traditionally, Chinese scholars have been taught
to take "cultivating oneself, managing the family,
governing the country, and bringing peace to the
world" as a lifetime mission. However, in the time of
chaos (AD 365-427), when the Eastern Jin Dynasty
was falling, and there were frequent power struggles
among land owners, there was Tao Yuan Ming, the
noble and virtuous writer and poet who "did not
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compromise his integrity just to earn a living"; or
Feng Zikai (1898-1975), an artist who was devoted
to the pursuit of goodness and beauty in human
nature even when experiencing political and socio-
economic turmoil during the birth of modern China.
His famous work Paintings for the Preservation of
Life breathed fresh air into society at the time, and is
widely known amongst later generations.