Lin Sanzhi Art Museum

Lin Sanzhi was born into a peasant family living near Caishiji, a village located some fifty kilometres south of Nanjing, Anhui province. Despite his family's poor financial situation, Lin received quite a good classical education. 
In 1959 he retired from politics and once again turned to art. In 1963 he became a teacher at the Jiangsu Academy of Chinese Painting in Nanjing, and began devoting an increasing amount of his time to mastering the fast-flowing cursive style of calligraphy (草书), which he believed best expressed both his skill and his spirit.During the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards persecuted him and destroyed many of his works.
 In 1978, at the age of eighty-one, he was appointed to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, where he met Deng Xiaoping, of whom he felt an enormous admiration. At the same time, Japan payed also homage to Lin Sanzhi, the man they saw as the 'sage of cursive script'.