Chinese calligraphy scroll on paper, signed by Zheng Xiao Xu with two seals.worked in 1895.143 x 36 CM. Zheng Xiao Xu (1860-1938), a political figure and calligrapher in modern China. A native of Minhou, Fujian Province. In 1882, he was elected in the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. He had successively served as the Minister of Frontier Defense in Guangxi, the Inspectorate of Anhui and Guangdong, and the Chief Envoy of Hunan. After the Revolution of 1911, he regarded himself as an old man. In 1932, he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Education of the Puppet Manchukuo. He is good at regular script, learned from Ouyang Xun and Su Shi, and gained strength from the Northern Wei Dynasty stele. The work is vigorous and simple. He is one of the advocates of "Tongguang Body" in the poetry circle. The characters are long and vigorous. He mentioned "Bank of Communications".鄭孝胥：書法，143*36厘米，紙本立軸。鄭孝胥（1860－1938），中國近代的政治人物、書法家。福建省閩候人。1882年清光緒八年舉人，曾歴任廣西邊防大臣，安徽廣東按察使，湖南佈政使等。辛亥革命後以遺老自居。1932年任偽滿洲國總理大臣兼文教總長。善楷書，取徑歐陽詢及蘇軾，得力於北魏碑。所作蒼勁樸茂。為詩壇“同光體”倡導者之一。書法由帖入碑，工楷、隸，尤善行楷字體，取經歐陽詢及蘇軾，而得力 於北魏碑版，所作字勢偏長而蒼勁樸茂，"交通銀行"即為他所提。