Ma is not only a revolutionary, scholar, poet, but also a calligrapher. Ma, like most calligraphers in Nanshe, followed Kang Youwei's theory of respecting monuments and restraining posts and became a master of collecting famous monuments. Its calligraphy mainly originated from the North Monument, but it is not limited to painting with pen and ink, but it is arbitrary, vigorous, vertical and horizontal opening and closing, and there is a strange smell under the simple face, and the shadow of the Northern Wei Dynasty inscriptions in Shimen Ming and Longmen Twenty Products can be faintly seen.
Ma's couplet "On Morality, Learning Confucianism, Learning from the Classics and Making History" was written on 1924 as the president of Shanghai Daxia University, and was signed by Wujiang Student Wang. The meaning of Shanglian is to learn to be a teacher, be a model, pay attention to morality and strive to be an example; Literally, the second couplet encourages Meng Jiacheng to become an expert in writing, but the understanding of the couplet can break through the narrow category of "writing" and be understood as the profound content of "transforming society and changing customs"