Chinese history has never lacked talents, let alone sages, and the sages who can be called shangtang, yao, shun, and dayu are in the front, and then there are Guan Zhong, Chen Ping, Zhuge Liang, Zhu Xi, Wei Zheng, and so on. In the 5,000-year development process, there are countless capable people and sages, and their deeds are gathered in the long river of history and have a long history. There are not many saints in history, but they can be called saints and can do virtue, meritorious service, and speech.
Many of the ideas of the sages and sages in history have had a very far-reaching impact on the world, and are also used and respected by modern people. Lao Tzu was a philosopher of the pre-Qin era in China and a founder of the Taoist school. He proposed a philosophical system with the Tao as the core, using the "Tao" to explain the nature, composition, change, and origin of everything in the universe. Lao Tzu's teachings contain rich and simple dialectical ideas.
Wen Sheng
Zhou Gong was an outstanding politician, military, thinker, and educator in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and was revered as a yuansheng and a pioneer of Confucianism. Jiang Taigong was good at martial arts, and Zhou Gongdan was good at literature, so the hundred sons and hundreds of families honored Zhou Gongdan with Wensheng.
Confucius, a sage of culture, has been promoting Confucianism all his life, making Confucianism the mainstream of Chinese culture and serving as the guiding ideology of Chinese for more than two thousand years. The second person is Ouyang Xiu, who here refers to the extremely high level of writing articles
Ouyang Xiu, Ouyang Xiu is revered as Wensheng, referring to the fact that his prose achievements have reached a very high level.
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Mencius: A great thinker, educator, and politician of the Warring States period, and a representative of the Confucian school. Together with Confucius, he was called "Confucius Andmeng". The Yuan Dynasty posthumously named Mencius "Ya Sheng Gong Shu Chen" and honored him as Ya Sheng.
Shangsheng
Fan Li was an early Chinese business theorist and one of the pioneers of Chu Studies. He was revered by posterity as Shang sheng, one of the five saints of Nanyang. Although he was born into poverty, he was erudite and versatile, and he was both literate and martial. He knew and had a deep acquaintance with Chu Wanling. Dissatisfied with the political darkness of the Chu state at that time and the fact that non-nobles were not allowed to enter the country, they defected to the yue kingdom together, and were later worshipped as shang dafu and xiang guo, and assisted the yue state in their deeds. He helped to revitalize the Yue Kingdom, destroy the Wu Kingdom, and achieve hegemony in Yixue, and was also named a general. After achieving fame, the rapids retreated bravely, and the pseudonym was Yizipi, and he traveled between the seventy-two peaks. During this period, he became extremely rich in business three times and scattered his family wealth three times. Later, he settled in the Song Dynasty Taoqiu in the Dingtao District of present-day Heze City, Shandong Province, and called himself Tao Zhugong. In the Tang Dynasty, Tang Dezong Jianzhong was given the Wucheng Wang Temple for three years, and was posthumously named one of the sixty-four generals of the Wucheng Wang Temple in ancient and modern times, and during the Song Dynasty, he was worthy of enjoying the Wu Temple.
Shi Sheng
Sima Qian, the great historian, writer and thinker of the Western Han Dynasty in China. Sima Tan's son, Ren Taishi Ling, was sentenced to palace punishment for defending Li Ling's defeat and surrender, and later served as Zhongshu Ling. He continued to complete the historical books he wrote, and was honored by later generations as Shi Qian, Tai Shi Gong, and the father of history.
Grass Saint
Refers to a person at the highest level in cursive writing techniques. Zhang Zhi of the Eastern Han Dynasty was first known as Cao Sheng, and in the history of ancient calligraphy, the representative figures who are recognized as "Cao Sheng" are only Zhang Xu and Huai Su of the Tang Dynasty, whose surviving ink is very rare, and they are known as rare treasures of the national treasure level! Zhang Xu, famous for his cursive writing, is uninhibited, open-minded, outstanding, talented and knowledgeable. Friendly with Li Bai and He Zhizhang, Du Fu included the three of them in the eight immortals of drinking.
Martial Saint
Guan Yu, a famous general in the late Han Dynasty, followed Liu Bei around the world, was captured by Cao Cao, and beheaded Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang at BaimaPo, and together with Zhang Fei was known as a ten thousand enemies.
a culmination of science
Zhu Xi was a Philosopher of the Southern Song Dynasty. He was one of the main representatives of Confucianism in the Chinese feudal era, and his academic thought, during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China, was the official philosophy of the feudal ruling class.
Healer
Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical scientist at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, also made great contributions to the theory of typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases in the field of prescription science, creating many dosage forms and recording a large number of effective prescriptions. The principles of six dialectical treatments established by it have been admired by generations of medical scientists.
Book St
Wang Xizhi, whose calligraphy is known as the Dragon Jumping Heavenly Gate and the Tiger Lying Phoenix Que, gives people a sense of quiet beauty, which is in contrast with Zhong Xuan's book. His calligraphy is round and solemn, easy to turn into a song, and he uses his pen to completely break through the penmanship of Lishu, and creates the modern style of calligraphy of Yanmei Liuben, which is respected by future generations as a book saint.
Poetry
Du Fu, the great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, was jointly known as "Li Du" with Li Bai. In order to distinguish from the other two poets, Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai were also collectively called "Great Li Du", and Du Fu was often referred to as "Old Du".
Tea Saint
Lu Yu, a lifelong tea lover, proficient in tea ceremony, is famous for writing the world's first tea monograph Tea Classic, has made outstanding contributions to the development of China's tea industry and the world's tea industry, is known as a tea fairy, plays as a sage, and worships as a tea god.
Wine Saint
Du Kang, originally an imperial family, was hunted down and killed after the throne was replaced, and finally fled to the Kingdom of Yu and did the right thing. As a correct Du Kang, for the leftover meal is not willing to throw away, he will put it in the empty mulberry, the day is long, the rice naturally fermented, emitting a fragrant smell, and flowing out of a liquid, Du Kang took it and drank it, feeling its sweet taste. Inspired by this, Du Kang repeatedly studied and pondered, and finally discovered the principle of natural fermentation with straw, so he consciously imitated it and continuously improved it, and finally formed a complete set of winemaking processes and invented barley wine
There was such a saint in the Ming Dynasty, who regarded it as his duty to serve the people of the world
He aspired to become a sage from an early age, but no one really told him that saints are also mortals, and through cultivation, they can make themselves saints. Therefore, Lou Yu told him that "the saints will learn to come", which was just in line with what his heart wanted, and then made him more determined in the path he was taking, the path of the saints. Founded first of all he was a sage with his own thoughts, which influenced many people but instead attacked the science of science greatly, and he admired heavenly people and a specific analysis of a specific problem. He was an excellent military master without it The direction of the Ming Dynasty's possible development could change, and the King of Ning rebelled, and he single-handedly turned the tide of the war and used his influence to suppress the rebellion in Fujian. He is a political victor who can resolve situations that are against him at any time. He was also the loveliest teacher, and his mission was to learn from the heart. He is truly a good man who stands up for the people. He is Wang Shouren, Wang Yangming, who has been called the Three Half-Saints by later generations in history. His influence on the Ming Dynasty was not only at that time, but also in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, his influence on psychology was very great, for example, Xu Jie and Zhang Juzheng were all the leaders in the political arena of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the power of the Xin School could not be underestimated.
Later generations of Zeng Guofan of the Qing Dynasty called him a half-saint
He was enlightened at the age of five and became acquainted with him at the age of six. In 18 years, Daoguang participated in the examination and successfully made the list, ranking 42nd in the third class in the temple examination, third in the first class of the Imperial Examination, and the Daoguang Emperor personally promoted him to the second place, and was elected as the Shujishi of the Hanlin Academy. The Xianfeng 2-year Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement has swept through half of China, the Qing government mobilized a large number of officers and men of the Eight Banner Army and the Green Battalion from all over the country, but this decadent armed force was repeatedly defeated, and Zeng Guofan's Xiang army was given a new army different from the government army in the hunan hometown area, relying on the complex interpersonal relations of teachers and apprentices, brothers, relatives, and friends. He began to lose the war, and was rescued by throwing himself into the water and committing suicide. On the basis of summing up the lessons learned, it marched all the way to Nanjing, and the Xiang army was greatly enhanced. Later, Zeng Guofan hosted foreign affairs and returned to serve as the governor of Liangjiang. As a modern politician and military expert, Zeng Guofan paid close attention to the corruption and decline of the later Qing Dynasty, and he attached great importance to the appointment of talents, reformed the military system, advocated the style of honest government, performed benevolent government, opposed tyranny, disturbed the people, and disposed of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, thus making great contributions to delaying the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. Judging from the social environment and national situation at that time, Zeng Guofan was a great talent, his political and military ideas influenced several generations, and he was also very successful in academic writings.