1. Li Jing (571-649)
Li Jing, a native of Sanyuan, Jingzhao, was a famous general in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He accompanied Li Shimin and made outstanding contributions to the unification and stability of the country in the early Tang Dynasty. Wei Guogong, Dai Guogong, Shangshu Youpushe, and the military book "Li Weigong Questions and Answers" is a glorious summary of his military life.
2. Wang Shu (1416-1508)
Zongguan, a native of Beicheng, Sanyuan, was a Jinshi in the first year of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty (1436), and held 19 official positions, reaching the rank of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He is the crown prince and Taibao, has outstanding political achievements, and is an outstanding politician in Deze Township. In his later years, he wrote books and founded Miyuan Hongdao Academy with his son Wang Chengyu, becoming the founder of the "Sanyuan School".
3. Ma Li (1479-1556)
Poem Boxun, Jinshi in the Jiaxu Year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1514). He once served as the chief officer of the Ministry of Personnel, the foreign minister of the imperial examination, and the minister of the imperial examination, Guang Luqing, etc. During the Hongzhi period, he studied at Miyuan Hongdao Academy and became famous throughout the country for his knowledge and articles. Scholars at that time compared him with Zhang Zai, a famous philosopher in the Song Dynasty and a representative of the Guanzhong School. The article "Preface to the Sending of Kang Taishi to His Mother to Return to Guanzhong" was copied abroad, and was used as a model for Korea to recite.
4. Wen Chun (1539-1607)
Poem Jingwen, Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1565), and served successively as magistrate, governor, official, minister of the Ministry of Industry, etc. . "History of the Ming Dynasty" records: "(Wen) served the public with a pure and innocent nature. The five chiefs inspected the north and south, eliminated all the officials, eliminated hundreds of officials, promoted discipline, and was allowed to be called a famous minister." He spared no effort in creating local public welfare undertakings throughout his life. Although he served as an official for three dynasties and had no family savings, he was the initiator of the construction of Sanyuan Gulong Bridge.
5. Sun Beard (1711-1773)
Sun Beard was born in Sanyuan. His father served as a military attaché in Yunnan and he lived in Kunming with his father. Erudite and knowledgeable, during the Qianlong period, he once wrote a 180-word couplet for the Grand View Tower of Dianchi Lake, which is known as the best long couplet in the world. The famous historian Guo Moruo praised: "The long couplets are still on the wall, and the huge letters are like rafters."
6. He Ruilin (1824-1893)
Zi Jiaosheng, a famous Neo-Confucian, educator and calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty. He became a scholar at the age of 18, and later studied under Li Tongge, a great scholar in Guanzhong. Together with Xue Yuying in Ruicheng, Shanxi, and Yang Shuchun in Chaoyi, he was known as the "Three Scholars of Guanzhong". Zhengyi Academy was founded in the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870). He has been teaching at Zhengyi Academy for 20 years. He combines learning with physical application. He has studied Cheng and Zhu Zhidao intensively, and has mastered Neo-Confucianism. He was proficient in calligraphy and regular calligraphy, and the stele "Leshan Pavilion Ji" in Huaqingchi, Lintong is the representative example.
7. Yu Youren (1879-1964)
A native of Donghedao Lane, Sanyuan County, he joined the Chinese Tongmenghui in April 1906. In 1912, the Provisional Government of the Republic of China was established and he served as deputy minister of the Communist Party of China. In 1918, he returned to Sanyuan and served as the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi Jingguo Army, echoing Sun Yat-sen's southern revolutionary base. In 1926, he and Feng Yuxiang organized the National Alliance Army to defeat Liu Zhenhua's troops and relieve the siege of Xi'an. After the establishment of the Nanjing National Government, he successively served as the president of the Audit Court and the Supervisory Yuan. In November 1949, he was forced to go to Taiwan. Yu Youren loved the country, the people, and his hometown, and successively founded "Minzhi Primary School", "Minzhi Middle School", Miyuan Weibei Middle School (today's Nanjiao Middle School), and Sanyuan Girls' Middle School in Sanyuan. Yu Youren is not only the pioneer of modern democracy in our country, but also a famous poet and calligraphy artist. He is revered as "Fang Weng" and "Cao Sheng". After long-term study, he created "Standard Cursive Script", which became a great treasure in the cultural history of our country.
8. Ru Yuli (1883-1972)
Studyed at Miyuan Hongdao University in his early years, joined the Chinese Tongmenghui in 1905, and served as the Audit Minister of the Nanjing Government in February 1931. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as a member of the Northwest Military and Political Commission, deputy prosecutor general of the Northwest Procuratorate, and other positions. Ru Zhi has great attainments in calligraphy. He "studied the examples of Han scripts intensively and enjoyed playing with stele tablets". He specialized in Wei stele and later regular script. His skills were profound and he was listed in the "Dictionary of Celebrities of Chinese Artists".
9. Xie Deping (1939-2000)
A native of Luqiao, Sanyuan, researcher at the Ministry of Culture, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Calligraphy Society, and president of the "Feitian" Cursive Script Research Association. He has loved calligraphy all his life. He has studied all kinds of calligraphy and melted it into a furnace. He created the "Rolling Dragon Body" and "Flying Sky Body" based on the beautiful and flowing images of Dunhuang murals. He has held 73 calligraphy exhibitions around the world, visited more than ten countries and regions including Britain, France, Japan, and India, and written more than 10 books on calligraphy theory.
His works are collected by the Boston Museum in the United States, the British Museum in the United Kingdom, the Schloss Museum in Germany and the Shanghai Art Museum. The Central News Film Recording Studio filmed the calligraphy film "Ink Sea Chasing Waves" for him, which was the first time in Chinese history.