Zhang Yu's calligraphy

1 Four Bachelor of Sumen, famous Northern Song writers Huang Tingjian, Qin Guan and Chao He. Su Shi was the leader who presided over the literary world in the Northern Song Dynasty after Ouyang Xiu. At that time,

He enjoys a high reputation among his writers, many of whom have made friends with him or received his guidance. Huang, Qin, Chao and Zhang were all trained by him.

There were four outstanding people in Wuzhong in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. They are Gao Qi (1336- 1374), Yang Ji (1326- 1378) and Xu Ben (? -1379) and Changyu (1333- 1385), who were more or less on the literary and social stage at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, were related to Zhang Shicheng, who was king in Suzhou at that time.

Three or four great poets in the early Tang Dynasty refer to Luo, Yang Jiong and Lu, all of whom are very talented poets in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. They became famous early and gained the reputation of "four great masters" in their youth.

Li Qiao, Su Weidao, Du Fu, Cui Rong and other "four friends of the article" had great influence in the early Tang poetry circle.

Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu, the four masters of Yuan Opera, represented the achievements of different schools of zaju in different periods of Yuan Dynasty. They are called "the four masters of Yuanqu".

The four masters of the Southern Song Dynasty refer to the painters of the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Songnian, Xia Gui, also known as the "Four Masters of the Southern Song Dynasty", or "Li, Liu, Ma and Xia" for short. Earlier, Liu, Ma and Xia inherited and developed the painting methods and became the mainstream of the Southern Song Dynasty Painting Academy.

Four children in the Warring States Period