1. Lu Xun
Lu Xun (September 25, 1881-October 19, 1936), whose original name was Zhou Zhangshou, was later renamed Zhou Shuren, with the courtesy name Yushan and later Hecai. "Lu Xun" was the pen name he used when he published "Diary of a Madman" in 1918.
It is also his most widely influential pen name, from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Famous writer and thinker, important participant in the May Fourth New Culture Movement, and the founder of modern Chinese literature. Mao Zedong once commented: "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."
Lu Xun spent his life in literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, and introduction of basic science. He has made significant contributions to many fields, including collation and research of ancient books.
He had a significant influence on the ideological and cultural development of Chinese society after the May 4th Movement. He is famous in the world of literature, especially in the ideological and cultural fields of South Korea and Japan. The writer who occupies the largest territory on the cultural map of East Asia.”
2. Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao (October 29, 1889 - April 28, 1927), courtesy name Shouchang, was born in Leting, Hebei. In 1907, he was admitted to the Tianjin Beiyang College of Law and Politics. After graduating in 1913, he traveled east to Japan and studied undergraduate politics at Waseda University in Tokyo.
Comrade Li Dazhao is a pioneer of Chinese communism, a great Marxist, an outstanding proletarian revolutionary, and one of the main founders of the Communist Party of China.
He was not only an outstanding early leader of our party, but also a famous scholar with profound knowledge and courage to pioneer. He occupies a lofty historical position in the Chinese communist movement and national liberation cause.
3. Wen Tianxiang
Wen Tianxiang (June 6, 1236 - January 9, 1283), was originally named Yun Sun, also named Song Rui. The Taoist name is Fuxiu Taoist and Wenshan. A native of Luling, Jizhou, Jiangxi, he was a politician, writer, patriotic poet and famous anti-Yuan official in the late Song Dynasty.
Together with Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie, he is known as the "Three Heroes of the Late Song Dynasty". Baoyou ranked first in Jinshi in four years. In the first year of Kaiqing's reign, he was granted the additional title of Cheng Shilang and Ning Haijun, the judge of Jiedu. In April of the sixth year of Xianchun's reign, he served as military supervisor and concurrently as Quanzhi Academy. He was dismissed from office because he drafted an imperial edict that satirized Quan Xiangjia Sidao.
In the first year of Deyou, the Yuan army marched eastward along the Yangtze River. Wen Tianxiang spent all his wealth on military resources and recruited 50,000 soldiers to defend Lin'an. In May, in Fuzhou, he and Zhang Shijie, Minister of Rites Lu Xiufu, and Right Prime Minister Chen Yizhong supported King Yi of Zhao Shi as emperor.
The plan was to take the sea route to the north to recover Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but was blocked by Chen Yizhong, so he went to Jianzhou in the south to gather troops to fight against the Yuan Dynasty. In May of the second year of Jingyan's reign, he attacked Jiangxi again, but was eventually defeated and retreated to Guangdong alone. In December of the first year of Xiangxing, he was captured in Wupoling.
The following year, Marshal Zhang Hongfan of the Mongolian and Han armies of the Yuan Dynasty escorted him to Yashan and ordered Zhang Shijie to be surrendered. Wen Tianxiang refused and wrote the poem "Crossing the Lingding Ocean" to clarify his ambition.
He was later deported to Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, personally persuaded him to surrender and promised him the post of prime minister. Wen Tianxiang was upright and would rather die than surrender. He died in Dadu on the ninth day of December in the nineteenth year of Yuan Dynasty (January 9, 1283).
4. Wen Yiduo
Wen Yiduo (November 24, 1899 - July 15, 1946), whose real name was Wen Jiahua, also named Yousan, was born in Hubei Xishui County, Huanggang City, China, a great patriot in modern China, a staunch democracy fighter, and an early leader of the China Democratic League.
A close friend of the Communist Party of China, a representative poet and scholar of the Crescent Party. In 1912, he was admitted to the Tsinghua University Preparatory School for Studying in the United States. In 1916, he began to publish a series of reading notes in Tsinghua Weekly.
In March 1925, he composed "Song of the Seven Sons" while studying in the United States. In January 1928, his second collection of poems, "Dead Water," was published. In 1932, Wen Yiduo left Qingdao and returned to his alma mater, Tsinghua University, as a professor in the Chinese Department. He was assassinated by Kuomintang agents in Kunming, Yunnan on July 15, 1946.
5. Lin Zexu
Lin Zexu (August 30, 1785 - November 22, 1850), was born in Houguan, Fujian Province (now Fuzhou City), with the courtesy name Yuanfu. Also known as Shaomu and Shilin, later names were Qicun Lao Lao, Qi Cun Retired Old Man, Seventy-two Peak Retired Old Man, Pingquan Jushi, Lishe Sanren, etc.
A statesman, thinker, poet, and national hero of the Qing Dynasty, with a first-level official rank. He served as governor of Huguang, Shaanxi-Gansu, and Yunnan-Guizhou, and was twice appointed as an imperial envoy.
Lin Zexu's works include "Yunzuoshanfang Notes", "Yunzuoshanfang Poetry Notes", "Lin Wenzhong's Notarization", "Lin Zexu Collection", "Lin Zexu's Letters", etc.
In 1839, when Lin Zexu was banning smoking in Guangdong, he sent people to investigate and secretly investigate, forcing foreign opium merchants to hand over opium, and the confiscated opium was destroyed in Humen on June 3, 1839.
The destruction of opium in Humen put Sino-British relations into a state of extreme tension and became an excuse for the British to invade China in the First Opium War. On November 22, 1850, Lin Zexu died of illness in the old county of Puning.