"Horizontal, vertical, left-falling, right-falling, dot... form a character, but different combinations create different characters. This is the fusion of strokes."

"Three thousand characters can form a splendid article. Different arrangements of characters express different meanings in the article. This is the fusion of characters!"

"The Dao Book, each character is a world. The character for water becomes water, the character for fire becomes fire. Water and fire are incompatible, yet they coexist harmoniously in the Dao Book. This is also a kind of fusion."

"The Dao Book is said to record three thousand Daos. Of course, it cannot truly record all three thousand Daos. But each character evolves, representing another form of the three thousand Daos. This is fundamentally one of the foundations of the Dao Book: the essence of fusion."