Speaking of who are the relatively important officials with the surname Wu in history, this question is quite complicated. After all, a person’s knowledge is not that broad, so it is really not easy to know. It’s easy to list them out, but the problems are not big. Recently, many people have said that they want to know more or less, so who are they? Let’s analyze it together and take a look!
1. Wu Daozi
Wu Daozi (about 680-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty and was honored as the Painting Saint in the history of painting. Han nationality, from Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). He was born around AD 680 (the first year of Yonglong) and died around AD 758 (the first year of Qianyuan). He was lonely and poor, and he became famous for his paintings when he was young. He once served as county lieutenant in Xiaqiu, Yanzhou (now Ziyang, Shandong), but resigned soon after. Later he lived in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation. During the Kaiyuan period, he was called to the court for his good painting skills and served successively as enshrined minister, doctor of internal medicine, and friend of Prince Ning. He once studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He Zhizhang, and learned how to use pens by watching Lady Gongsun dance her sword. He is good at Buddhism, Taoism, gods and ghosts, figures, landscapes, birds and beasts, vegetation, pavilions, etc. He is especially good at Buddhism, Taoism, figures, and mural creation.
2. Wu Changshuo
Wu Changshuo (August 1, 1844 - November 29, 1927), was originally named Jun, also known as Junqing, with the courtesy name Changshuo, and his signature Cang. Stone and Cangshi have many nicknames. Common ones include Cangshuo, Laocang, Laofou, Kutie, Dade, Fou Taoist, Shi Zunzhe, etc. A native of Zhangwu Village, Xiaofeng County, Zhejiang Province (now Anji County, Huzhou City). During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, he was a famous Chinese painter, calligrapher, and seal engraver. He was a representative of the "Houhai School" and the first president of the Xiling Seal Society in Hangzhou. Together with Ren Bonian, Pu Hua, and Xu Gu, he was known as the "Four Masters of the Shanghai School in the Late Qing Dynasty."
He combines "poetry, calligraphy, painting and sealing" into one body, and integrates gold and stone calligraphy and painting into one furnace. He is known as "the first person in stone drum seal script" and "the last peak of literati painting". He is a banner figure in painting, calligraphy, and seal cutting, and has high attainments in poetry, epigraphy, and other aspects. Wu Changshuo enthusiastically supported the underachievers, and Qi Baishi, Wang Yiting, Pan Tianshou, Chen Banding, Zhao Yunhe, Wang Gezhen, Sha Menghai, etc. all received his guidance. [
Wu Changshuo's collections of works include "Wu Changshuo Painting Collection", "Wu Changshuo Collection of Works", "Bitter Iron and Broken Gold", "Foulu Near Ink", "Wu Cang Stone Seal", "Foulu Seal", etc. His collection of poems includes "Fou" "Luji".
3. Wu Qi
Wu Qi (440 BC - 381 BC), with the surname Jiang, Wu family, was born from the Zuo family of Wei State (now Caoxian County, Shandong Province). In the early Warring States Period, he was a military strategist, politician, reformer and representative figure of military strategists.
He lived through the three kingdoms of Lu, Wei and Chu throughout his life. He was proficient in the three schools of military thought, Legalism and Confucianism, and made very high achievements in domestic affairs and military affairs. When he was in Chu State, he assisted King Chu Dao in presiding over the reform. In the 21st year of King Zhou An (381 BC), he was brutally killed because his reforms offended the conservative nobles.
His works include "Wu Zi's Art of War", which has been passed down to the world and is called "Sun Wu" together with the military sage Sun Wu. During the reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, he was located in the Temple of King Wucheng and became one of the ten philosophers of the Temple of Wucheng. During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was granted the title of Uncle Guangzong and became one of the seventy-two generals of the Martial Arts Temple.
4. Wu Sangui
Wu Sangui (June 8, 1612 - October 2, 1678), also known as Changbo and Yuesuo, lived in Qiantun, Guangning, Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty A native of Weizhong Housuo (now Suizhong, Liaoning), his ancestral home is Gaoyou, Nanzhili (now Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province). He is the son of Wu Xiang, the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou, and the nephew of his ancestor Dashou. A famous political and military figure in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, he was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, granted the title of Xibo, and guarded Shanhaiguan. Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and opened a martial arts examination to recruit scholars. Wu Sangui won the martial arts examination. Soon, Wu Sangui took his father Yin as the commander-in-chief. In the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644), he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, defeated Li Zicheng in the battle of Shanhaiguan, and was granted the title of King of the West. In the 16th year of Shunzhi (1659), Wu Sangui guarded Yunnan, led troops into Myanmar, and forced the king of Myanmar to hand over Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty. In the first year of Kangxi (1662), Wu Sangui killed Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty in Kunming. In the same year, Jin was granted the title of Prince of Pingxi, and together with Geng Jingzhong, the king of Jingnan in Fujian, and Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan in Guangdong, they were called the Three Feuds. In the twelfth year of Kangxi's reign (1673), he ordered the withdrawal of the vassal state. Wu Sangui claimed to be the king of Zhou, the president of the land and water marshal of the world, and the general of Xingming to fight against the captives. He issued a proclamation, which was known as the "Rebellion of the Three Feudatories" in history. In the seventeenth year of Kangxi's reign (1678), Wu Sangui ascended the throne as emperor in Hengzhou (today's Hengyang City). The country was named Da Zhou, and Hengyang was established as the capital and Zhaowu was established as the Yuan Dynasty.
He died of illness in Hengyang in the autumn of the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678). His posthumous title is Emperor Jiyun Tongwen Shenwu Gao, the founder of Tiandao. His grandson Wu Shifan held on for three years before the Qing army captured Kunming, and the San Francisco Rebellion came to an end.