diff --git a/docxtpl/richtext.py b/docxtpl/richtext.py
index f78d6ef..80b567e 100644
--- a/docxtpl/richtext.py
+++ b/docxtpl/richtext.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ class RichText(object):
         if strike:
             prop += u'<w:strike/>'
         if font:
-            prop += (u'<w:rFonts w:ascii="{font}" w:hAnsi="{font}" w:cs="{font}"/>'
+            prop += (u'<w:rFonts w:ascii="{font}" w:hAnsi="{font}" w:cs="{font}" w:eastAsia="{font}"/>'
                      .format(font=font))
 
         xml = u'<w:r>'
diff --git a/tests/richtext_eastAsia.py b/tests/richtext_eastAsia.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..168ad72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/richtext_eastAsia.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+'''
+Created : 2022-08-03
+@author: Dongfang Song
+'''
+from docxtpl import DocxTemplate, RichText
+tpl=DocxTemplate('templates/richtext_eastAsia_tpl.docx')
+rt = RichText('测试TEST', font = 'Microsoft YaHei')
+ch = RichText('测试TEST', font = '微软雅黑')
+sun = RichText('测试TEST', font = 'SimSun')
+context = {
+    'example' : rt,
+    'Chinese' : ch,
+    'simsun' : sun,
+}
+
+tpl.render(context)
+tpl.save('output/richtext_eastAsia.docx')
diff --git a/tests/templates/richtext_eastAsia_tpl.docx b/tests/templates/richtext_eastAsia_tpl.docx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9f25fcf
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