Who are the sages and classic figures?

All talents and virtues are called sages-people with perfect morality and wisdom. According to the classics of Confucianism, Taoism and Mohism, saints usually refer to ancient kings (holy kings), including Yi Yin and Fu Shuo, who assisted the holy kings, and Confucius who eventually inherited the orthodoxy of ancient kings.

The sage-Fuxi, the king of Shang Tang-invented the Eight Diagrams, laid the basic theory of the Book of Changes, laid the human relations between the monarch, the minister and the father, and invented the guqin.

Emperor Yan-laying the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and inventing agricultural tools.

Huangdi-unified tribes by force, and laid the system of rites, music, costumes, country, traditional Chinese medicine and civilization.

Yao laid the theory of benevolent governance and tribal harmony, and founded the abdication system.

Shun-laying the theory of governing the country with filial piety.

Yu governs water.

King Shang Tang-Smash Xia Jie.

-laid the foundation of Zhou, and wrote the hexagrams of the Book of Changes.

Zhou Wuwang-crusaded against the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, established the Zhou Dynasty and wrote the Book of Changes.

Duke of Zhou-inherited the wisdom of Yao Shunyu's predecessors in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, established the most complete system of rites, music, laws and civilization in China history, and assisted Zhou Wuwang to create the Zhou Dynasty with a history of 800 years.

Confucius, who synthesized the wisdom of the above philosophers, compiled the five Confucian classics, the fundamental classic of Chinese civilization.