The hometown of Confucius and Mencius is home to numerous celebrities. Confucius, thinker, politician, educator, and founder of Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period; his student Zeng Zi; military strategist Sun Wu; Yan Ying, a doctor of the State of Qi; Bian Que, a famous doctor during the Warring States Period; Zi Si, a philosopher; thinker, politician, and founder of Mohism Mo Zhai; Lu Ban, a construction craftsman; Yi Qiu, a famous Go player; Sun Bin, a military strategist; Mencius, a thinker, politician, and educator; Liang Chi, a thinker; Chunyu Yi, a medical scientist in the Han Dynasty, whose daughter Ti Ying used the method of destroying flesh as a punishment; "Shang Shu", a modern text of the Western Han Dynasty "The earliest transmitter of "Fu Sheng"; writer Dongfang Shuo; Confucian scholar Kuang Heng; writer Wei Xuancheng; agriculturist Si Shengzhi; writer Kong Rong; Confucian scholar Zheng Xuan; philosopher Zhong Changtong; writer Wang Can; writer Liu Zhen; astronomer Liu Hong; politician and military strategist Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period (Yinan, Shandong); Confucian scholar, exegesis expert, and disciple of Zheng Xuan Sun Yan; mathematician Zhang Qiujian of the Jin Dynasty; litterateur Yang Hu; metaphysician Wang Bi; Writer Zuo Si; Calligrapher Wang Xizhi; He Chengtian, atheist thinker and astronomer in the Northern and Southern Dynasties; Poet Yan Yanzhi; Writer Bao Zhao; Literary theory critic Liu Xie; Writer Wen Zisheng; Writer Wang Ji; Thinker and educator Yan Zhitui; Famous doctor Xu Shu Xiang; medical scientist Wang Shuhe; historian Cui Hong; agriculturist Jia Sixie; Sui Dynasty painter Zhan Ziqian; Tang Dynasty astronomy and calendar expert Cui Shanwei; poet Chu Guangxi; litterateur Duan Chengshi; Song Dynasty scholar Hu Dan; litterateur Wang Yu _; Scholar and writer Shi Jie; Medical scientist Qian Yi; Writer Chao Buzhi; Medical scientist Cheng Wuji; Female poet Li Qingzhao; Anti-Jin hero and famous patriotic poet Xin Qiji; Jin Dynasty almanacist Zhang Xingjian; Hydraulicist Wang Juqing; Go player Liu Zhongfu; Wang Pizhi, an expert in ancient bridge construction; Painter Zhang Zeduan; Epigraphy Zhao Mingcheng; Painter Liang Kai; Qiu Chuji, one of the seven truths in the north of Quanzhen Taoism; Kong Yuancuo, a historian in the late Jin Dynasty; Historian and calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty Dang Huaiying; poet and scholar Zhou Mi; Du Renjie, a famous poet and sanquist in the Yuan Dynasty; Wang Yun, a historian and writer; Jia Lu, a water conservancy expert; Yang Huan, a philologist; Zhang Yanghao, a sanqu writer and writer; Yang Chaoying, a sanquist; Opera writer Gao Wenxiu; Agriculturalist and improver of letterpress printing Wang Zhen; Opera writer Kang Jinzhi; Historical geographer and litterateur Yu Qin; Commentator of the Four Books and Five Classics Dong Yangxing; Ming Dynasty mechanician Wang Zhao; Folk water conservancy expert Bai Ying; writer Xie Zhen; dramatist Li Kaixian; sanqu writer Feng Weimin; famous poet and writer Li Panlong; famous anti-Japanese general and strategist Qi Jiguang; calligrapher and painter Xing Dong; writer and poet Yu Shenxing; sanqu writer Liu Xiaozu; The famous doctor Bi Fenchen; Qing Dynasty writer and pharmacologist Wang Xiangjin; Opera writer and writer Ding Yaokang; Famous astronomer and mathematician Xue Fengzuo; Historian Fu Yijian; Economist Zhang Erqi; Poet Song Wan; Historian Ma Masu; Literature Jia Tian Wen; poet Cao Zhenji; historian Zhang Zhaoqian; famous writer Pu Songling; opera writer Kong Shangren; calligrapher and painter Pan Wuyun; poet Zhao Zhixin; calligraphy, painting and seal cutting artist Gao Fenghan; medical scientist Huang Yuanyu; calligrapher Liu Yong; local chronicler Li Wenzao ; Scholar Kong Jifen; Scholar Kong Jihan; Economist and exegesis expert Hao Yixing; Famous folk doctor of traditional Chinese medicine Qifeng; Philologist Wang You; Famous epigrapher, collationist and calligrapher Xu Han; Literary connoisseur and ancient coin collector Scholar Li Zuoxian; epigrapher Chen Jieqi; medical scientist Cai Yuke; educationist Wu Xun; famous epigrapher and discoverer of oracle bone inscriptions Wang Yirong; artist Sun Zhongxin; bibliophile Yang Yizeng; famous scholar and ancient book compiler Ma Guohan; epigrapher Wu Shifen; Yang Zuozhi, a famous acupuncture doctor; Ding Shoucun, a weapons manufacturing expert; Zang Yingzhan, a famous doctor; Wu Xunyuan, a historian and calligrapher.