Historical celebrities with the surname Huang
Huang Xie: A nobleman of Chu during the Warring States Period. He was once the Prime Minister of Chu. Due to his meritorious service, he was named Lord Chunshen. He was one of the four famous princes of the Warring States Period. .
Huang Ba: A native of Yangxia, Huaiyang (now Taikang, Henan Province) in the Western Han Dynasty, he served successively as governor, censor and prime minister. Together with Gong Sui, he was a representative of the feudal "historical tradition", and together they were called "Gong Huang" .
Huang Zhong: A native of Nanyang (now part of Henan Province), he was a famous general of Shu in the Three Kingdoms. He rose to the rank of general and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei.
Huang Gai: A native of Quanling, Lingling (now Lingling, Hunan Province) during the Three Kingdoms period, he was a veteran general of the Sun family. He became famous in the Battle of Chibi, and was promoted to a partial general.
Huang Chao: A native of Caozhou Yuanju (now Heze, Shandong Province), the leader of the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty. Born as a salt merchant, he accumulated wealth and gathered people, and he was especially good at sheltering desperadoes. Since Yizong of the Tang Dynasty, due to the excessive luxury of the royal family, heavy taxes, and successive years of floods and droughts, the people have been in dire straits and bandits have emerged. In the first year of Qianfu of Emperor Xizong (874 AD), Wang Xianzhi led bandits to revolt. The following year, Huang Chao raised troops to respond. In the fifth year of Qianfu, Wang Xianzhi was defeated and died in Hubei. Huang Chao was elected as the general of the sky, leading the army to attack Jiang, Zhejiang, Fujian, and In Guangdong and other places, Luoyang and Chang'an were captured in the first year of Guangming (880). Xizong fled to Chengdu. Chao proclaimed himself emperor, proclaimed himself emperor in Chang'an and established the Daqi regime, with the reign name Jin Tong. The Tang Dynasty used officials and nobles to win over Li Keyong to support him, and Huang Chao was defeated. Chao committed suicide.
Huang Quan: A native of Chengdu (now part of Sichuan Province) in the Later Shu Dynasty of the Five Dynasties. He was good at painting birds, figures, landscapes, ink and bamboo, etc. He was called "Huang Xu" together with Xu Xi from the south of the Yangtze River, forming the Five Dynasties Flower and Bird Painting. There are two main schools of painting.
Huang Xing: A native of Changsha, Hunan, a democratic revolutionary. He participated in the democratic revolutionary movement in his early years and was one of the famous leaders.
Huang Tingjian: A native of Fenning, Hongzhou (now Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty. His poems were called "Su Huang" together with Su Shi. He founded the Jiangxi School of Poetry and was one of the four major calligraphers in the Song Dynasty.
Huang Gongwang: A native of Changshu, Pingjiang (now part of Jiangsu Province) in the Yuan Dynasty, he was good at calligraphy, proficient in music, good at prose, and especially good at landscape painting. He was one of the "Four Yuan Schools". He is the author of "The Secret of Writing Landscapes".
Huang Daopo: A native of Huajing Town, present-day Shanghai County, he learned and spread textile and other technologies, promoting the prosperity and development of the cotton textile industry at that time.
Huang Zongxi: A native of Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, he was an outstanding thinker and historian during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. He was one of the three major thinkers in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He is the author of "The Case of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty" and "The Case of the Song and Yuan Dynasties".
Huang Zunxian: A native of Jiaying (now Meixian County), Guangdong Province. He was a poet in the late Qing Dynasty. His poems are called "history of poetry" and he is the author of "Japanese National Chronicle" and "Renjinglu Shicao".