The ten most accomplished people in Chinese history.
As the saying goes: there is no first in literature, and there is no second in martial arts. Chinese culture is vast and profound, creating countless literati and scholars, who have made very high achievements in literature. To discuss the most accomplished literary celebrities in Chinese history, the following ten are indispensable in any case.
Confucius, 551 BC-479 BC, a famous thinker and educator in ancient China, and the founder of the Confucian school. Confucius pioneered the style of private lecturing, advocated benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, and wisdom, and revised the six classics of "Poems", "Books", "Rites", "Music", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn" in his later years. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and subsequent disciples recorded the words, deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled them into the Analects. The book is regarded as a Confucian classic. Confucius was one of the most learned scholars in society at that time, and was even revered by subsequent rulers as the Sage of Confucius, the Most Holy Teacher, the Most Holy Master of the Most Holy Ancestor, the First Master of Dacheng and the Master of Wan Shi. His ideas have had a profound impact on China and the world, and his people are listed as the first of the "world's top ten cultural celebrities".
Zhuangzi, c. 369 BC - c. 286 BC, thinker, philosopher, literary scholar in the middle of the Warring States period, representative of the Taoist school, together with Laozi, known as "Laozhuang". His first idea of "inner saint and outer king" had a profound influence on Confucianism. He had an insight into Yi Li, and his works were called "the philosophy of literature, the literature of philosophy". The book Zhuangzi is also enshrined as the Nanhua True Scripture, representing the highest achievement of pre-Qin prose.
Qu Yuan, c. 340-278 BC, a poet and politician during the Warring States period, the founder of Chinese romantic literature, the founder and representative writer of "Chu Ci", opened up the tradition of "vanilla beauty", is known as the "ancestor of Chu Ci", and had a profound influence on later poetry. Becoming a brilliant pearl in the history of Chinese literature, Qu Yuan was named one of the world's four major cultural celebrities.
Sima Qian, 145 BC or 135 BC ~ unexaminable, Western Han historian, literary scholar, thinker, was later honored as Shi Qian, Tai Shi Gong, and the father of history. He created China's first general history "Shiji" with the historical knowledge of "studying heaven and man, going through the changes of ancient and modern times, and becoming the words of a family", which is recognized as a model of Chinese history books, the first of the "twenty-four histories", and is known as "the swan song of historians, the rhyme of divorce".
Li Bai, 701-762, known as the "Immortal Being", was a great romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty, known as "Shixian" by later generations, and was called "Li Du" together with Du Fu. Li Bai has the "Li Taibai Collection", and most of the poems are written when he was drunk, and in terms of its pioneering significance and artistic achievements, "Li Bai Zhi" enjoys an extremely high status.
Du Fu, 712~770, a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, was known as "Li Du" together with Li Bai. Du Fu's influence on classical Chinese poetry was so profound that he was later revered as a "poetic saint", and his poems were called "poetic history". Later generations called him Du Shiwei and Du Gongbu, also known as Du Shaoling and Du Caotang, and his achievement status was not under Li Bai.
Han Yu, 768–824, known as "Han Changli" and "Mr. Changli", was a mid-Tang dynasty official, writer, thinker, philosopher, politician, and educator. Han Yue was an advocate of the ancient text movement of the Tang Dynasty, and was revered by later generations as the head of the "Eight Great Figures of the Tang and Song Dynasties", and was called "Han Liu" together with Liu Zongyuan, and had the names of "Article Jugong" and "Hundred Generations Wenzong".
Ouyang Xiu, 1007-1072, Northern Song Dynasty politician and literary scholar, was the first literary leader in the history of Song Dynasty literature to create a generation of literary styles, known as one of the "Eight Great Figures of the Tang and Song Dynasties", he led the Northern Song Dynasty poetry reform movement, created a generation of literary styles, and laid the foundation for the prosperity of Northern Song prose.
Su Shi, 1037-1101, known as Su Dongpo and Su Xian, was a writer, calligrapher, gourmet, painter, and famous person in history of water control. Su Shi was a leader in the literary circle in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and achieved high achievements in poetry, lyrics, literature, books, painting, etc., and was one of the "Eight Great Figures of the Tang and Song Dynasties".
Cao Xueqin, c. 1715–c. 1763, author of the classical Chinese novel Dream of the Red Mansion. Cao Xueqin's life experience created the ancient swan song "Dream of the Red Mansion", and also made him the greatest novelist in ancient Chinese history. "Dream of Red Mansions" is grand in scale, rigorous in structure, complex in plot and vivid in description, and is the pinnacle of ancient novels. Later, because of the study of "Dream of Red Mansions", a new science appeared - red science.