Unselfish Philosophy Custom Chinese Calligraphy Wall Scrolls
We have many options to create artwork with your favorite ancient Chinese unselfish philosphy on a wall scroll or portrait. If you want to create a cool Unselfish Asian character tattoo, you can purchase that on our Chinese and Japanese Tattoo Image Service page and we'll help you select from many forms of ancient Asian symbols that express the idea of unselfishness.
This is comes from an old story from some time before 476 BC. About a man named Qi Huangyang, who was commissioned by the king to select the best person for a certain job in the Imperial Court.
Qi Huangyang selected his enemy for the job. The king was very confused by the selection, but Qi Huangyang explained that he was asked to find the best person for the job, not necessarily someone that he personally liked or had a friendship with.
Later, Confucius commented on how unselfish and impartial Qi Huangyang was by saying "Da Gong Wu Si" which if you look it up in a Chinese dictionary, is generally translated as "Unselfish" or "Just and Fair".
If you translate each character, you'd have something like,
"Big/Deep Justice Without Self".
Direct translations like this leave out a lot of what the Chinese characters really say. Use your imagination, and suddenly you realize that "without self" means "without thinking about yourself in the decision" - together, these two words mean "unselfish". The first two characters serve to really drive the point home that we are talking about a concept that is similar to "blind justice".
One of my Chinese-English dictionaries translates this simply as "just and fair". So that is the short and simple version.
Note: This can be pronounced in Korean, but it's not a commonly-used term.
This can also mean: "Place Strict Standards on Oneself in Public Service". This Chinese phrase is often used to express how one should act as a government official. Most of us wish our public officials would hold themselves to higher standards. I wish I could send this scroll, along with the meaning to every member of Congress, and the President (or if I was from the UK, all the members of Parliament, and the PM)
The story behind this ancient Chinese idiom: A man named Cai Zun was born in China a little over 2000 years ago. In 24 AD, he joined an uprising led by Liu Xiu who later became the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Later, the new emperor put Cai Zun in charge of the military court. Cai Zun exercised his power in strict accordance with military law, regardless of the offender's rank or background. He even ordered the execution of one of the emperor's close servants after the servant committed a serious crime.
Cai Zun led a simple life, but put great demands on himself to do all things in an honorable way. The emperor rewarded him for his honest character and honorable nature by promoting him to the rank of General and granting him the title of Marquis.
Whenever Cai Zun would receive an award, he would give credit to his men and share the reward with them. Cai Zun was always praised by historians who found many examples of his selfless acts that served the public interest. Sometime, long ago in history, people began to refer to Cai Zun as "ke ji feng gong".
This would be literally translated as "none self" in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. It is used to express "selflessness" or "unselfish". This is a popular term for the idea of being selfless or unselfish in modern China and Japan. This term is not as commonly-used in Korea, but still has good meaning.
This is a more common way to say selflessness in Japanese. This literally means "no self" or a better translation might be "not thinking of oneself". This is also understood in Chinese and Korean. This is a very old word in CJK languages.
This is the word a Buddhist would use express the idea of selflessness or unselfishness. For Korean Buddhists it can mean self-renunciation.
Impartial & Fair to the Brotherhood & Sisterhood of the World
AKA: Universal Benevolence
yí shì tóng rén isshidoujin 일시동인
This is how to write "universal benevolence". This is also how to express the idea that you see all people the same.
If you are kind and charitable to all people, this is the best way to state that virtue. It is the essence of being impartial to all mankind, regardless of social standing, background, race, sex, etc. You do not judge others, but rather you see them eye to eye on the same level with you.
All of our calligraphy is completely done by hand in the ancient way.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to our art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Therefore, allow a few weeks for delivery from the time you place your order. Rush options are available!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The scroll that I am holding in this picture is a "medium size" 4-character wall scroll. As you can see, it is a great size to hang on your wall. (We also offer custom wall scrolls in larger sizes)
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days. Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also
attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over
6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers
in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt
such a feat.
My Conscience Cannot be Betrayed! ... be allowed to go back to work and would be dismissed from the ... All propaganda and reports in the Chinese newspapers and TV are distorted and fabricated. ...
When Law and Order Works ... to the issue, they usually can do little more than appeal for good will and ... assault and harassment is not the work of persons belonging to ideologically ...
Chinese Horoscopes - The Ox ... Oxen are show good judgement, a good characteristic for successful ... People born under this sign will unselfishly work their fingers to the bone to ...
sharing | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon ... of an inherently finite good, such as a common pasture or a timeshared residence. ... contribution to the team's success"; "they all did their share of the work" ...
2004PIG He will unselfishly give up his time for the common good and is highly valued by ... Although the Pig may work hard, he also knows how to enjoy himself. ...
Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net We wouldn't start the project until we had a good plan and felt comfortable beginning. ... How can we work with the media well with such a speaking style? ...
PILLARS OF LEADERSHIP But of good leaders who talk little, when their work is ... There is no substitute for common sense in effective leadershipthe coupling of ...
Profit and Loss - Mises Institute ... production of another good for which the demand of the public is less intense. ... to increase output than the comparatively simple routine work assigned to him. ...
When Law and Order Works ... to the issue, they usually can do little more than appeal for good will and ... assault and harassment is not the work of persons belonging to ideologically ...
Li Po's Guide to Elysium They will work unselfishly and without any other philosophical bias or focus. ... This is a common location for the headquarters of good sects devoted to art, ...
Infinite Way Circle of Christhood | ... measure are working humanly for the good of mankind and without ... They work wherever they are applied seriously, sacredly, secretly, and unselfishly. ...
sharing | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon ... of an inherently finite good, such as a common pasture or a timeshared residence. ... contribution to the team's success"; "they all did their share of the work" ...
Archive(2005/5) " Choice America Network Online ... Administration (SAMHSA) - - perhaps as a reward for his good work on PennMap. ... a much higher standard of living, for no purpose other than the common good. ...
The Swamp - Chicago Tribune - Blogs. ... how people can reconcile and move beyond past difficulties for the common good. ... It's good! Get behind your elected leaders and work for change. Ride ...
Knowledge Organization for the Betterment of Humankind ... driven machines do the work, at the expense of lost employment for workers who ... operate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little ...
He Is Able to Cleanse From Sin One of the strongest characteristics of Christ was His love for work. ... authority and power over the simple missionary who always went about doing good. ...
Roosevelt's Report to Congress on the Crimea Conference ... the Nazi clutch for world conquest back in 1940, and then by the Japanese ... the conference determined to find a common ground for its solution, and we did. ...
The Seed and the Tree ... are, they have one goal in common, which is the cultivation of a capacity ... When work is done as sacred work, unselfishly, with a peaceful mind, without ...
The following table is only helpful for those studying Chinese (or Japanese), and perhaps helps search engines to find this page when someone enters Romanized Chinese or Japanese
yi2 shi4 tong2 ren2 yishitongren ishihtungjen i shih tung jen
If you have not set up your computer to display Chinese, the characters in this table probably look like empty boxes or random text garbage.
This is why I spent hundreds of hours making images so that you could view the characters in the "Work Unselfishly For The Common Good" listings above.
If you want your Windows computer to be able to display Chinese characters you can either head to your Regional and Language options in your Win XP control panel, select the [Languages] tab and click on [Install files for East Asian Languages]. This task will ask for your Win XP CD to complete in most cases. If you don't have your Windows XP CD, or are running Windows 98, you can also download/run the simplified Chinese font package installer from Microsoft which works independently with Win 98, ME, 2000, and XP. It's a 2.5MB download, so if you are on dial up, start the download and go make a sandwich.
