Preparation for the general knowledge judgment questions of the national examination (National Civil Service Examination), the six ancient sages:
The sage of calligraphy-Wang Xizhi
Wang Xizhi, also known as Yi Shao, Calligrapher during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
He is good at calligraphy in Li, Cao, Kai and Xing styles. His style is peaceful and natural, his writing style is euphemistic and subtle, and he is beautiful and graceful.
The representative work "Lanting Preface" is known as "the best running script in the world". In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi are collectively known as the "Two Kings".
The Painting Sage—Wu Daozi
Wu Daozi (about 680-759), also known as Daoxuan, was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty. He was honored as the Painting Sage in the history of painting.
He is good at Buddhism and Taoism, gods and ghosts, figures, landscapes, birds and beasts, vegetation, pavilions, etc., especially good at Buddhism, Taoism, figures, and mural creation. His representative painting is "Picture of the Heavenly King Sending His Son to Heaven".
Tea Sage - Lu Yu
Lu Yu (733-804), courtesy name Hongjian, also known as Jizhi, also known as Jizhen, also known as Jinglingzi, Sangjuweng, Donggangzi, Fuzhou in Tang Dynasty A native of Jingling (now Tianmen, Hubei).
Having been fond of tea all his life and skilled in tea ceremony, he is famous for writing the world's first tea monograph - "Tea Classic". He has made great contributions to the development of China's tea industry and the world's tea industry, and is known as " "Tea Fairy", played as "Song Sheng", worshiped as "Tea Fairy", worshiped as "Tea God".
Martial Saint - Guan Yu
Guan Yu (birth date unknown - 220), originally named Changsheng, later changed to Yunchang, was a native of Jie County, Hedong County (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), and was known as He is the "beautiful bearded man". The people respect him as "Guan Gong".
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" respects him as the first of the "Five Tiger Generals" of Shu, and Mao Zonggang calls him "the most righteous" among the three best in "The Romance".
Cao Sheng—Zhang Xu, Huai Su
1) Zhang Xu (685?-759?), also known as Bo Gao and Ji Ming, was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou (now Jiangsu Province) Suzhou) was a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. He was good at cursive writing and liked drinking. He was known as "Zhang Dian" in the world. He was also known as "Dian Zhang Zuisu" together with Huai Su. He was also known as "the Four Scholars of Wuzhong" together with He Zhizhang, Zhang Ruoxu and Bao Rong. He Zhizhang and others are collectively known as the "Eight Immortals in Drinking", and his cursive writing, Li Bai's poems and Pei Min's sword dance are also known as the "Three Wonders".
2) Huaisu (737-799), whose common surname was Qian and whose courtesy name was Zangzhen, was from Lingling, Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan). A calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, he was famous for his "crazy grass" and was known as the "Sage of Grass" in history. He became a monk since he was a child. In his spare time, he practiced Zen and loved calligraphy. He was as famous as Zhang Xu and was collectively known as "Dian Zhang Kuang Su". This formed a situation where the two peaks of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty coexisted and were also two peaks in the history of Chinese cursive calligraphy. The calligraphy works handed down from generation to generation include "Autobiography Calligraphy", "Bitter Bamboo Shoots Calligraphy", "Notre Dame Calligraphy", "On Calligraphy Calligraphy" and "Xiaocao Qianwen".
Science Saint—Zhang Heng
Zhang Heng (78-139), also known as Pingzi. Han nationality, a native of Xi'e, Nanyang (now Shiqiao Town, Nanyang City, Henan Province), one of the Five Sages of Nanyang, and together with Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, and Ban Gu, are known as the four great masters of Han Fu. A great astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, and writer during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China.
Zhang Heng made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese astronomy, mechanical technology, and seismology. He invented the armillary sphere and the seismograph. He was one of the representatives of the armillary theory in the middle Eastern Han Dynasty. He was hailed as the "Sage of Wood" (Sage of Science) by future generations. Due to his outstanding contributions, the United Nations Astronomical Organization named a crater on the back of the moon "Zhang Heng Crater" and the 1802 asteroid in the solar system as "Zhang Heng Star". In order to commemorate Zhang Heng, later generations built the Zhang Heng Museum in Nanyang.