Famous figures in Gaoping

Qi Gong (1777-1844), also known as Zhuxuan and Ji'an, was a native of Xiaoyili, Gaoping in the Qing Dynasty.

He was a scholar at the age of 14 (the 56th year of Qianlong), a scholar at the age of 18 (the 60th year of Qianlong), and a Jinshi at the age of 21 (the first year of Jiaqing).

He successively served as the head of the Criminal Department and a member of the Criminal Department.

Bi Zhenji (1612-1681), named Liangsi, also known as Wangsun and Jieyun, was a native of Bofang Village, Gaoping, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1642), Bi Zhenji won the first place in the Xixiang Examination in Zhongshan. In the third year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1646), she was a Jinshi. The positions include chief officer, Yuanwailang, Taoist priest, inspector envoy, and administrative envoy.

Wang Shuhe, a famous doctor in Chinese history, was originally named Wang Xi and given the courtesy name Shuhe. He was a native of Gaoping, Shanxi.

He studied the medicine of his motherland all his life, engaged in medical practice, and devoted himself to medical writings.

Wang Shuhe reorganized the medical treatise Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases written by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Han Dynasty, into two books: Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.

In addition, he also wrote books such as "Mai Jue", "Mai Fu", "Mai Jue Secrets", "Xiaer Mai Lun" and other books.

Jia Lu (1297-1353), courtesy name Youheng, was a native of Gaoping in the Yuan Dynasty.

When he was young, he was smart, studious and ambitious, and when he grew up, he was very resourceful.

From the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, he received tribute from the countryside twice with the Ming Sutra.

At the beginning of Taiding, he was awarded the Confucianism professor of Dongping Road, and later he was appointed as the Yin of Lucheng County, and was repeatedly promoted to the head of the household department.

In the third year of Zhizheng (1343), he ordered the revision of the three histories of Liao, Jin and Song, and called Jia Lu to be the official of the Song History Bureau.

He has successively served as Provincial Inspector of Zhongshu, Procuratorate Censor, Deputy History Officer of Shanbei Lianfang, and Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry.

In the meantime, in view of the tragic situation at that time when "the Yellow River overflowed, causing damage for thousands of miles, flooding the city walls, destroying the houses, ruining the crops, and poisoning the people", the people along the river left their homes and sold their children and daughters, Jia Lu led the management of the Yellow River many times and saved people from floods.