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政治家 · Statesmen1 entry
军事家 · Strategists1 entry
官员 · Officials1 entry
诗人 · Poets2 entries
- Li Bai Tang Dynasty 618 – 907 Li Bai, 701 – 762 · Tang dynasty poet Li Bai (701–762) was the greatest romantic poet of the Tang dynasty, a wandering courtier and recluse whose wine-soaked verses about friendship, nature, and the moon made him, in later legend, an immortal banished from heaven.
- Su Shi Song Dynasty 960 – 1279 Su Shi, 1037 – 1101 · Song dynasty statesman and Poet Su Shi (1037–1101), better known by his pen name Dongpo, was a poet, statesman, and all-around genius of the Song dynasty who wrote some of China's most loved lyrics, essays, and paintings while surviving two exiles to the empire's far south. A man of enormous warmth and resilience, he turned banishment into a kind of freedom and taught later readers how to meet misfortune with humor and grace.
教育家 · Educators2 entries
- Confucius Zhou Dynasty c. 1046 – 256 BC Confucius, 551 – 479 BC · Teacher of Lu, founder of the Ru tradition Confucius (551–479 BC), born Kong Qiu in the small state of Lu, was a teacher and thinker who never held high office for long yet reshaped Chinese civilization for the next two thousand years. Teaching that character is formed by ritual, learning, and humaneness, he gathered a circle of disciples whose record of his words, the Analects, became the foundation of a tradition he himself never knew he had founded.
- Mencius Zhou Dynasty c. 1046 – 256 BC Mengzi, c. 372 – 289 BC · The second sage of Confucianism Mencius (Meng Ke, c. 372–289 BC) was a teacher from the small state of Zou who spent some twenty years walking the warring courts offering a government rooted in human goodness, was admired by every ruler and followed by none, and went home to write a book. A thousand years after his death the Song dynasty crowned him the Second Sage of Confucianism, raising his claim that human nature is good and that a ruler who abandons the people forfeits the right to rule into the curriculum of an empire.
史学家 · Historians1 entry