Who was called the Three Saints in ancient times?

1, the book sage Wang Xizhi. Shu Sheng, alias of Wang Xizhi, was born in Linyi (now Shandong) of Han nationality, and later moved to Huiji. In his later years, he lived in seclusion in Jinting County, China, and was a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, known as Shu Sheng. Worked as a secretary, general Ningyuan, Jiangzhou secretariat. Later, he was the secretariat of Huiji, who led the right general and was called "Wang Youjun" and "Wang Huiji". His son, Wang Xianzhi, is also good at calligraphy, and the world is collectively known as the "two kings".

2. Draw Saint Wu Daozi. Wu Daozi, a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, is known as a saint in the history of painting, also known as Daoxuan. Han nationality, from Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). Born in 680 AD (the first year of Yonglong), he died around 758 AD (the first year of Gan Yuan). Lonely and poor, you will have a painting name when you are young. He used to be the county commandant of Qiu Yan (now Ziyang, Shandong Province), and soon resigned.

After that, he settled in Luoyang and engaged in mural creation. During the Kaiyuan period, he was called to the DPRK for his good painting, and successively served as a doctor, an internal teacher and Wang You. He studied calligraphy with Zhang Xu and He, watched sword dancing and experienced the skill of using a pen. He is good at Buddhism, ghosts and gods, figures, landscapes, animals, plants, pavilions and so on. , especially good at Buddhism and figures, and good at mural creation.

3. The poet Saint Du Fu. In the winter of the fifth year of Du Fu's reign (770), Du Fu died of illness at the age of 59. Du Fu's influence on China's classical poetry is far-reaching, and he is called "the sage of poetry" by later generations, and his poems are called "the history of poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Caotang.

The core of Du Fu's thought is the Confucian thought of benevolent government, and he has the great wish of "making the monarch Yao and Shun superior, and then making the customs pure". Although Du Fu was not famous during his lifetime, his fame spread far and wide, which had a far-reaching impact on China literature and Japanese literature. About 65,438+0,500 poems of Du Fu have been preserved, most of which are collected by Du Gongbu.