One Chinese who happened to be a fairly good artist and was traveling through Europe was once doing calligraphy. A European friend of his saw him doing it, and in surprise asked him, "Can Chinese people write with a brush too?"
有位旅歐華僑頗好書藝，有一次他在寫書法時被外國朋友看到，那名外國人驚訝地問他：「中國人也拿毛筆寫字嗎？」