"Subdue monsters with strength and obtain scriptures with sincerity" means: subdue monsters with courage and obtain scriptures with sincerity.
Comes from a couplet written by Xiao Xian, a famous female calligrapher in my country, on both sides of the statue in Wu Chengen’s former residence.
It reveals to people a true truth in the world: "To defeat evil depends on strength, and to achieve success depends on perseverance."
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The famous female calligrapher Xiao Xian advocated in her life that "writing and chanting couplets is related to temperament and nature." She wrote many popular couplets, including A short couplet inscribed to the Wu Chengen Memorial Hall in Huai'an: "To overcome monsters with strength, to learn from scriptures only with sincerity", it is a concise and comprehensive summary of the central content of "Journey to the West" philosophically.
A couplet written by her hangs in the "Pillow Qin Room" of her residence in Nanjing: "Integrity does not speak of greed, diligence does not speak of hardship; respect what he hears, and do what he knows.", expressed in just 16 words She encourages herself to be diligent in her studies and have an upright style.