Cai Yong, Cai Wenji, Cai Yuanpei, Cai Lun, Cai E, Cai Zhengkai, etc.
Cai Lun: Eunuch of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He summarized the experience of using hemp fiber to make paper since the Western Han Dynasty, improved the papermaking technology, and used bark, hemp heads, rags, and old fishing nets as raw materials to make paper, which was called "Caihou Paper" at the time. He was passed down by later generations as the inventor of papermaking in my country.
Cai Yong: a famous writer and calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is erudite, loves words, and is proficient in music. In the fourth year of Xiping (AD 175), it is famous for the writing of the "Six Classics", which is known as the "Xiping Stone Classic". He is also one of the four great painters of the Eastern Han Dynasty (the others are: Liu Bao, Zhao Qi and Zhang Heng). He also worked on official script and created "Feibai" script.
Cai Yan: A female poet of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the daughter of Cai Yong, whose courtesy name was Wenji, so she was also called Cai Wenji. Erudite, talented in debating and proficient in music, she is known as a "talented woman". Famous for "Eighteen Beats of Hujia". Cai Xiang: an outstanding calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. Good at calligraphy and painting. The regular script is solemn and steady, the running script is pure and graceful, and the cursive script uses the flying white method, which means that "loose grass" and "flying grass" are self-contained. Together with Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fu, they are known as the "Four Song Dynasty Schools".
Cai Ze: A native of Yan during the Warring States Period. The Prime Minister of Qin was famous for his eloquence and wisdom.
Cai Xiyong: Westernizationist in the late Qing Dynasty. Under Zhang Zhidong's order, he founded the Hubei Artillery Factory, organized the layout, Ma'anshan Coal Mine Bureau, etc. He is proficient in shorthand and applies shorthand to translation. He is the founder of Chinese shorthand.
△Cai Chusheng, (1906-1968) film director. A native of Chaoyang, Guangdong. Entered the film industry in 1927. He has written and directed "Morning in the City", "Fishing Lights", "New Women", and "A River of Spring Flows East" (cooperated with Zheng Junli).
△Cai E, (1882-1916) a modern military strategist. His original name was Gen Yin and his courtesy name was Songpo. A native of Shaoyang, Hunan. In the third year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty (1911), he led the New Army uprising in Yunnan and was elected governor of Yunnan. In December 1915, the National Defense Army launched an uprising in Yunnan to oppose Yuan Shikai's restoration of the monarchy. Later he served as the governor of Sichuan. In 1916, he went to Japan for medical treatment and died soon after.
△Cai Hesen, (1895-1931) Chinese proletarian revolutionary. The courtesy name is Runhuan and the nickname is Zeying. He is a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan. Together with Mao Zedong, he established the Xinmin Society and founded the "Xiangjiang Review". After the May 4th Movement, he went to France to work and study. After returning to China in the winter of 1921, he joined the Communist Party of China. He was a member of the 2nd to 6th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1925, he led the May 30th Movement. He was arrested in Hong Kong in the summer of 1931 and killed by the Kuomintang reactionaries in the same year.
△Cai Tingkai, (1892-1968) patriotic general. A native of Luoding, Guangdong, his courtesy name is Xianchu. Graduated from the Guangdong Army Lecture Hall. He once served as commander and deputy commander-in-chief of the 19th Route Army of the Kuomintang. On January 28, 1932, he led the 19th Route Army and the Shanghai People's Communist Party to resist the Japanese invasion. In November 1933, he, Li Jishen, Jiang Guangnai and others launched the Fujian Incident and established the anti-Chiang People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China. In 1948, he initiated the organization of the Chinese Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee in Hong Kong. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a member of the Central People's Government and vice chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang.
Cai Yuanpei, (1868-1940) a modern bourgeois democratic revolutionary, educator, and scientist. The courtesy name is Heqing and the nickname is Zimin. He is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. Jinshi of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. In the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (1898), he devoted himself to the revolution that overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Participated in the Alliance. In 1912, he served as the Director-General of Education of the Nanjing Provisional Government. In 1917, he served as president of Peking University and actively supported students' patriotic movements. After the September 18th Incident, he actively advocated resistance to Japan. Died of illness in Hong Kong in 1940. Author of "The Complete Works of Cai Yuanpei".