the four great caves, namely: Longmen Grottoes 龙门石窟[lóng mén shí kū] at Luoyang, Henan, Yungang Caves 云冈石窟[yún gāng shí kū] at Datong, Shanxi, Mogao Caves 莫高窟[mò gāo kū] at Dunhuang, Gansu, and Mt Maiji Caves 麦积山石窟[mài jī shān shí kū] at Tianshui, Gansu
Four great compilations of Northern Song dynasty, namely: Extensive records of the Taiping era (978) 太平广记, Imperial readings of the Taiping era 太平御览, Prime tortoise of the record bureau 册府元龟, Finest blossoms in the garden of literature 文苑英华
Four Great Yuan Dramatists, namely: Guan Hanqing 关汉卿[guān hàn qīng], Zheng Guangzu 郑光祖[zhèng guāng zǔ], Ma Zhiyuan 马致远[mǎ zhì yuǎn] and Bai Pu 白朴[bái pǔ]
Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties, namely: Cao Buxing 曹不兴[cáo bù xīng], Gu Kaizhi 顾恺之[gù kǎi zhī], Lu Tanwei 陆探微[lù tàn wēi] and Zhang Sengyou 张僧繇[zhāng sēng yóu]
1.Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang2.refers to Yu Shinan 虞世南[yú shì nán], Ouyang Xun 欧阳询[ōu yáng xún], Chu Suiliang 褚遂良[chǔ suì liáng] and Xue Ji 薛稷[xuē jì]
1.Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology2.abbr. to 四化[sì huà]
The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, translated in 67 AD by Kasyapa-Matanga 迦叶摩腾[jiā yè mó téng] and Gobharana 竺法兰[zhú fǎ lán] (Dharmaraksha)