Southern Jiangsu has been a place where talented people and beauties have emerged since ancient times. It has good mountains, good water, good scenery, and numerous celebrities. Especially since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Southern Jiangsu has been rich in cultural talents. For example, Ni Zan, one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River and one of the four great masters of the Yuan Dynasty, A Bing, the author of Erquan Yingyue, Zhang Xu, the great mathematician, Hua Luogeng, the great mathematician, Qian Mu, the last master of Chinese studies in China, etc. Southern Jiangsu also has the most academicians of the two academies. Nanjing Ancient celebrities in Nanjing include the calligraphers Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi and their son of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the painting sage Gu Kaizhi. Zu Chongzhi, the scientific master of the Southern Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing, the calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Changling, the master of seven arts, Cao Xueqin, the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" in the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Mei, the talented scholar, and Wei Yuan, the patriotic thinker. In modern times, there are Tao Xingzhi, Xu Beihong, Fu Baoshi, Liu Haisu, Lin Sanzhi, Hu Xiaoshi, etc. Suzhou's ancient celebrities include the legendary cadre Mo Xie; the emperors and generals Wu Wang, Wu Zixu, Taibo, Sun Wu, and Han Shizhong; the famous officials and wise guests Wen Tianxiang, Wang Hao, Fan Zhongyan, and Weng Tonghe; the literati Bai Juyi, Su Shunqin, Fan Chengda, and Gu Yanwu; The calligrapher and painter Zhang Xu, the "Four Ming Masters" headed by Shen Zhou; the master architect and Forbidden City designer Kuai Xiang, etc. Modern celebrities include Zhang Taiyan, Yu Yue, Gu Jiegang, Ye Shengtao, etc. Ancient celebrities in Wuxi include Fan Li, a Yue official in the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu Chunshenjun in the Warring States Period, Liang Hong in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Gu Kai, a Wuxi painter in the Jin Dynasty, Ni Zan, one of the "Four Yuan Schools" painters, Li Shen, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shen, a great poet in the Ming Dynasty. Gu Kejiu, the teacher of the famous minister Hai Rui, Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, leaders of the Donglin Party, Xu Xiake, the great tourist, Yan Shengsun, a famous poet in the literary world of the early Qing Dynasty, and Chen Weisong and Gu Zhenguan, the great poets.
In modern times, there are Liu Bannong, the famous scholar and writer Qian Zhongshu, musicians Hua Qiuping, Liu Tianhua, Chinese master Qian Mu, modern education pioneer Tang Wenzhi, contemporary outstanding painter Xu Beihong, famous educator Jiang Nanxiang, the famous Scientist and educator Gu Yuxiu, economists Chen Hansheng, Sun Yefang, and Xue Muqiao, Qian Weichang, one of the founders of mechanics, applied mathematics, and Chinese informatics, and theoretical physics and fluid mechanics educator Zhou Peiyuan, are known as contemporary Bi Sheng's Computer expert Wang Xuan, Vice President Rong Yiren, industrialists Yang Zonglian, Yang Zonghan, Rong Zongjing, Rong Desheng, Zhu Dachun, Zhou Shunqing, Tang Baoqian, Xue Nanming, etc. Changzhou Ancient celebrities in Changzhou include Emperor Gao of the Southern Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty. They were born in the ancient Wujin County. The Xiao family, represented by Xiao Tong who edited the "Selected Works of Zhaoming", has profound attainments in literature, history and music. In the Ming Dynasty, there were the educator Xie Yingfang, who "Wu Shizheng was a disciple, and his reputation was more important than that in Jiangnan", and the writer and anti-Japanese hero Tang Jingchuan; in the Qing Dynasty, the Yanghu literary school represented by Zhuang Cunyu and Liu Fenglu appeared, with Zhang Huiyan as its representative. Representatives of Changzhou Ci School and Menghe Medical School. In modern times, there are representatives of the Westernization movement Sheng Xuanhuai, patriotic industrialist Liu Guojun, calligrapher and painter Liu Haisu, etc. During the Republic of China, there were many academicians of the Central Academy of Sciences such as Zhao Yuanren, Wu Zhihui, and Wu Dingliang who enjoyed a reputation in the academic world. Qu Qiubai, Zhang Tailei and Yun Daiying are important early leaders of the Communist Party of China. Zhenjiang Ancient celebrities in Zhenjiang include famous literary representatives Li Bai, Du Mu, Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Lu You, Xin Qiji, etc. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty (who sent slaves), Liu Yiqing, who wrote "Shishuoxinyu", Xiao Tong, the editor of China's first collection of poetry and prose, "Selected Works of Zhaoming", and the author of China's first Liu Xie and others from the masterpiece of systematic literary theory "The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons". In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were the scientist Shen Kuo, the scientist Su Song who made the world's earliest astronomical clock "Water Transport Instrument Platform", the calligrapher and painter Mi Fu, and the famous anti-Jin general Zong Ze. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were: Yang Yiqing, who was a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and a bachelor of Wuyingdian University, and Zhang Yushu, who presided over the compilation of "Unification of the Qing Dynasty", "Peiwen Yunfu" and "Kangxi Dictionary".
In modern times there are: Liu E, the author of "Tie Yun Hidden Turtle" and "Lao Can's Travels", Ma Jianzhong, the author of the first comprehensive and systematic Chinese grammar monograph "Ma Shi Wentong", historians Liu Yizheng, financier Chen Guangfu, bridge expert Mao Yisheng, and Zhao Sheng, the commander-in-chief of the Guangzhou Uprising of 1911 and posthumously promoted to general by the Nanjing Provisional Government.
In addition, Danyang City is the hometown of Sun Quan, Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms, Xiao Daocheng, Emperor Gao of Qi in the Southern Dynasty, and Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty. In modern times, there are patriotic old man Ma Xiangbo, artist Lu Fengzi, and contemporary linguist and Chinese educator Lu Shuxiang; Jurong City is known as Ge Xuan, the originator of medicine, Ge Hong, a Taoist theorist, alchemist and medical scientist in the Jin Dynasty, and Tao Hongjing, a Taoist thinker and medical scientist in the Southern Dynasties.