Yi Yin: The year of birth and death remains to be verified. A famous minister in the early Shang Dynasty. Zhi Ming is a native of Yichuan (also known as Luanchuan or Songxian) in Luoyang. Because the official surname is Yin, it is called Yi Yin, also known as Aheng or Baoheng. Originally the concubine of Tang Xin's daughter, Tang was awarded the state government because of her mastery of governing the country, and made outstanding achievements in helping Tang destroy the summer. There is a tomb site of Yi Yin in Pingxiang, Yichuan County.
Duke Zhou: Ming Dan, son of Zhou Wenwang and brother of King Wu. He was a politician and thinker in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. Because Zhou took Wang Tai as his fief, he was called Duke of Zhou. With the construction of Luoyang City, under the system of rites and music, Luoyang was honored as Sheng Yuan by later generations.
Laozi: The founder of Taoism, whose surname is Li Minger, whose name is Bo Yang, is Shi Yue. He used to be a "library history keeper" in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and managed books in Luoyang for a long time.
Books. Tao Te Ching, also known as Laozi's Five Thousand Articles, is the main representative work of Taoism.
Sang Hongyang (former 152 ~ former 80) was a minister of the Western Han Dynasty. Luoyang (now northeast of Luoyang, Henan) people. Under his participation, he successively formulated and implemented economic policies such as salt, iron and wine official management, even loss, leveling, calculation and currency unification, regained the control of salt, iron and trade from the wealthy businessman dajia, increased the financial revenue of the Western Han government, and played an important role in consolidating the autocratic and centralized rule.
Ban Chao: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. In the early years of Emperor Han Ming, the Northern Xiongnu repeatedly threatened the western countries to send troops and plundered Hexi and other places in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the 16th year of Yongping (73), Ban Chao was sent to the Western Regions to appease the countries in the Western Regions. After 65 years, the relationship between the Western Regions and Han was restored. It was not until the 14th year of Yongyuan (102) that Ban Chao returned to Luoyang from the Western Regions and was buried in Luoyang. Ban Chao has made outstanding contributions to consolidating the western territory of China and promoting the development of a multi-ethnic country for 30 years. At the same time, the Eastern Han Dynasty resumed its rule over the western regions, defended the "Silk Road" and promoted economic and cultural exchanges between China and countries in Central and Western Asia.
Ban Gu: Revised Han Shu). In the seventh year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (82 years), Lantai ordered Shi Bangu to write Hanshu in Luoyang. The compilation of Hanshu lasted more than twenty years, from the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty to the failure of Wang Mang. The total volume 120 was divided into twelve chapters, eight tables, ten records and seventy biographies. After Ban Gu's death, his sisters Ban Zhao and Ma Xu inherited some "watches" and "ambitions". Hanshu is the first dynastic history with complete style and rich content in China.
Cai Lun: In the first year of Yuan Xing in the Eastern Han Dynasty (105), eunuch Cai Lun improved the folk paper-making method, and made paper from bark, hemp head, cloth, fishnet, etc., and presented it to Emperor He, which was called "Cai Hou Paper". The invention of papermaking played an important role in the development of world culture. One of the four great inventions in China.