Written by Mr. Guo Moruo.
The four characters "Bank of China" were originally inscribed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The name on the stone inscription on the business department building of Bank of China Shanghai Branch (formerly Bank of China Head Office) is still Dr. Sun Yat-sen's original name. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the style and format of bank names varied from place to place. After Nan Hanchen, the governor of the People's Bank of China, concurrently served as the governor of the Bank of China, he believed that the Bank of China should have a unified style. He asked the famous calligrapher Mr. Guo Moruo (1892-1978) to rewrite it.
What Mr. Guo wrote is very popular. Guo Moruo's four words "Bank of China" are very changeable. The thick brush is not bloated and solid as a pillar, the fine brush is not weak and hard as iron, and the whitening is just right. This sentence is accurate, full of majesty and power. This is indeed the best of Mr. Guo Moruo's inscriptions.
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Author of other bank titles:
1. The six characters of the People’s Bank of China were Mr. Ma Wenwei (1904- 1988), originated from the second set of RMB.
2. The four characters for Bank of Communications were written by Zheng Xiaoxu, a famous modern Chinese calligrapher. Zheng Xiaoxu (1860-1938) was one of the participants in the establishment of Manchukuo and was the puppet prime minister of Manchukuo. Zheng Xiaoxu is famous for his "Zheng School" calligraphy and is also a master of regular script calligraphy. The four characters "Bank of Communications" have a compact font structure, which is both solemn and elegant, yet dangerous and reckless, both informal and beautiful.
3. The four words "China Merchants Bank" were proposed in 1987 by Mr. Qin Ersheng, the then 87-year-old chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Calligraphers Association.