From Mao Zedong's (
毛泽东) 《
沁园春·
雪》 (1936):
山舞银蛇，
原驰蜡象，
欲与天公试比高。 (Mountains dance like silver serpents; the plains drive wax elephants - all wanting to measure heights with Heaven.) Mao surveys the snowbound Shaanxi landscape and projects his own ambition onto it. One of the most famous lines of 20th-century Chinese poetry.
