Qu Yuan (about 340 BC or 339-278 BC) was a poet and politician of Chu State during the Warring States Period in China. Born in Chu Danyang (now Yichang, Hubei). Mi surname, Qu family, human, the word is native; Since the cloud name is regular, the spirit word is even.

In his early years, he was trusted by Chu Huaiwang as Zuotu, and was also a doctor of San Lv, in charge of internal affairs and foreign affairs. Advocate "American politics", advocate improving talents and abilities internally, improve statutes, and unite external forces to resist Qin. Slashed by nobles, he was exiled to Hanbei and Yuanxiang Valley.

After General Qin attacked Ying, the capital of Chu State (now Jiangling, Hubei Province), Qu Yuan drowned in the Miluo River and died heroically. Qu Yuan is the first great patriotic poet in the history of China and the founder of China's romantic literature.

The founder and representative author of Songs of the South initiated the tradition of "vanilla beauty" and was praised as "the ancestor of China's poetry" and "the ancestor of Ci". The appearance of Qu Yuan marks that China's poetry has entered a new era from collective singing to individual originality.

Qu Yuan's major works include Li Sao, Nine Songs, Nine Chapters and Tian Wen. Chu Ci, with Qu Yuan's works as the main body, is one of the sources of China's romantic literature, and it is also called "coquettish" with the Book of Songs, which has a far-reaching influence on later poetry.

1953, on the occasion of the 2230th anniversary of Qu Yuan's death, the World Peace Council passed a resolution to identify Qu Yuan as one of the four cultural celebrities in the world.

2. Li Shizhen

Li Shizhen (1518-1593), whose real name was Dongbi, was born in Hushan in his later years. He was born in Waxieba (now Doctor Street) in Dongchang Street, qi zhou, Qichun County, Hubei Province, and was born in a doctor's family. A famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty.

Later, he was sentenced by Chu Palace and Royal Hospital. After his death, the Ming court named him "Wen Linlang". Since 1565, Li Shizhen has been to Wudang Mountain, Lushan Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, Niushou Mountain, Huguang, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places to collect drug specimens and prescriptions.

He also learned from fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, rickshaws, medical workers and snake catchers, consulted 925 books on medicine in past dynasties, recorded tens of millions of words, and found many difficult problems.

27 years of cold and heat, three easy drafts. In the eighteenth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1590), he completed the magnum opus Compendium of Materia Medica with1920,000 words. In addition, he also studied pulse science and eight strange meridians. There are many works, such as Eight Veins in the Strange Classics and Hu Ling Veins. He was honored as a "medicine saint" by later generations.

3. Bi Sheng

Bi Sheng (about 970- 105 1), an ancient inventor in China, was the inventor of movable type printing. Han nationality. Qi zhou in the Northern Song Dynasty (now from yingshan county, Hubei). I started as a printer, specializing in manual printing.

Bi Sheng invented clay movable type printing, which is regarded as the earliest movable type printing technology in the world. In Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo recorded Bi Sheng's movable type printing in Meng Qian Bi Tan.

4. Zhang

Zhang (1525-1July 9, 582) was born in Jiangling, Hubei Province, with the name of Zhang Jiangling (now Jingzhou, Hubei Province). Politicians and reformers in the middle and late Ming dynasty, cabinet records in Wanli period.

The "Wanli New Deal" initiated by Emperor Wanli is called Zhang Reform in history. In the 26th year of Jiajing (1547), 23-year-old Zhang was admitted as a scholar. In the first year of Qin Long (1567), he served as the left assistant minister of the official department and a college student in Dongge.

Later, he moved to be the second assistant to the cabinet and served as a university student in the official department, Shangshu and Jianjitang. In the sixth year of Qin Long (1572), after Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, Zhang took the high arch as the record because of the support of Li Taihou and eunuch Feng Bao.

At that time, he was still young, and all military and political events were decided by Zhang. Zhang implemented a series of reform measures during his ten years as cabinet secretary.

In the tenth year of Wanli (1582), Zhang died on July 9 (June 20) at the age of 58, and later gave Zhu Guo and Wen Zhong (the latter two were taken away). Zhang was also the only civil servant in Ming Dynasty who was awarded a teacher and a teacher before his death.

Confiscated by Ming Shenzong after his death, Ming Di was rehabilitated in the second year of Apocalypse (1622). He is the author of "Collected Works of Zhang Taiyan", which directly interprets the classics of books and illustrates the emperor's mirror.

5. Wang Zhaojun

Wang Zhaojun (about 52 years ago-about 8 years ago) was born in Zigui, Nanjun, Western Han Dynasty. He was born in Xingshan County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, and was a palace maid of the Western Han Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. He is known as the four beauties in ancient China, along with Di Xin, Shi and Yang Guifei.

Wild goose, one of the four beauties in ancient China, was called harmony in Jin Dynasty to avoid it. Wang Zhaojun maintained the stability of Sino-Hungarian relations for half a century, and the story of Zhaojun's departure from the fortress spread through the ages.

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