I feel moved to contribute something to the postings about mustaches, but

nothing very consequential comes to mind.

For what it’s worth: The Chinese language does not distinguish between a

beard and a mustache. It used to be the case, and very likely still is in

some quarters, that Communist Party offices in the People’s Republic were

decorated with a row of framed portraits on the wall, the persons portrayed

being Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. These were known popularly as “the

four beards.”