The other day while I was working out with my roommate down at the "Green Lake" I saw this old man doing calligraphy. I mumbled a few Chinese words to him and asked him If he could draw my Chinese name. I read about his biography that his wife gave me and found out he was pretty famous. During the cultural revolution he has two of his fingers on his right hand badly injured so he learned how to do calligraphy with his left hand. Now he has mastered the technique using either hands and is really amazing at it. The characters on here are written from right to left instead of the typical way of modern Chinese writing which is left to right. Anyways I was very happy to get him to write my name for me.
PEACE, Ya dan (亚丹)
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