Historical celebrities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces

In the long history of Zhejiang, there are many outstanding people in philosophy, politics, military affairs, science and technology, culture and other fields. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to modern times, there were more than 1000 Zhejiang writers in history, accounting for16 of the whole country. Since the founding of New China, Zhejiang people account for nearly 1/5 of academicians.

A large number of cultural celebrities have emerged, such as philosophers and thinkers Wang Chong, Liu Ji, Song Lian, Wang Yangming, Huang Zongxi and Gong Zizhen, poets He, Luo, Meng Jiao, Zhu, Zhou Bangyan and Lu You, painters Zhao Mengfu, Xu Wei, Huang, Chen Hongshou, Ren Bonian and Wu Changshuo, and calligraphers Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang. Especially since the May 4th Movement, great proletarian cultural pioneers Lu Xun and Mao Dun have appeared, as well as literary celebrities such as Jin Yong, Xu Zhimo, Yu Hua, Yu, Rou Shi, Yin Fu, Yu Dafu, Feng Xuefeng, Xia Yan, Shao Quanlin and Ai Qing.