1. Cai Xiang (1012-1067), courtesy name Junmo, nicknamed Puyang Jushi, posthumous name Zhonghui, lived in Xianyou County, Xinghua Army, Fujian Road, Northern Song Dynasty (now Xianyou County, Fujian Province) people.
A politician, calligrapher and tea expert in China's Northern Song Dynasty.
He is the author of books such as "Tea Records" and "Litchi Pu".
Cai Xiang was an official who was upright and dared to remonstrate. In May of the third year of Jingyou, Fan Zhongyan, the minister of Tianzhang Pavilion and the powerful official of Kaifeng Prefecture, disobeyed the prime minister Lu Yijian and was demoted. Ouyang Xiu, the editor of the pavilion, Yu Jing, the judge of Dali Temple, Prince Zhongyun, and Yin Zhu, the colographer of the pavilion, were all demoted for discussing Zhong Yan. Cai Xiang wrote "The Poems of Four Sages and One Unworthy" to support Fan, Ouyang and others.
2. Cai Lun (63-121), courtesy name Jingzhong, was born in Leiyang, Guiyang County, Eastern Han Dynasty (now Leiyang City, Hunan Province).
He improved the papermaking technology of the Eastern Han Dynasty, expanded the sources of papermaking raw materials, made full use of waste materials such as bark, rags, hemp heads and fish nets, and reduced the cost of paper, especially The pioneering use of bark to make pulp paper opened up a broad way for the development of the paper industry.
Cai Lun entered the palace in the late Yongping years of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, and served as Xiaohuangmen in the early years of Emperor Zhang's founding.
After Emperor He of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he was promoted to the rank of Changshi and participated in the planning of national secrets.
3. Cai Jing (February 14, 1047 - August 11, 1126), with a long character.
A native of Xinghua Xianyou (now part of Fujian) in the Northern Song Dynasty.
A calligrapher and politician during the Northern Song Dynasty, he served as prime minister four times and stayed in power for seventeen years.
Cai Jing is one of the most famous corrupt officials in Chinese history. His extravagance brought disaster to the country and the people, leading to the decline of the Northern Song Dynasty.
After Song Qinzong came to the throne, Cai Jing was demoted to Lingnan (now Guangdong) and dismissed as Chongxin and Qingyuan Army's deputy envoy (rank official, from the eighth grade). He died of starvation on the way to Tanzhou (now Hunan) Changsha) Dongming Temple, five miles south of the city, and was buried in Guanyin Hall.
4. Cai Yuanpei (January 11, 1868 - March 5, 1940), also known as Zhongshen, also known as Heqing, Minyou, Jimin, nicknamed Yige, The diminutive name is Yi Ke, whose nickname is A Pei, and his aliases are Cai Zhen and Zhou Ziyu. He is a native of Shanyin County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), originally from Zhuji, Zhejiang. He is a modern revolutionary, educator, politician, and a pioneer in the study of modern Chinese ethnology. .
Cai Yuanpei was a generous and compassionate person with a thorough observation of Chinese society and customs. He twice studied in Europe and was intimately familiar with the spirit of Renaissance humanism and the ideological trends after the French Revolution.
5. Cai Yan, also known as Wenji and Zhaoji.
The year of birth and death is unknown.
A native of Yuxian County, Chenliu County, Eastern Han Dynasty (now Qixian County, Kaifeng, Henan Province), she was the daughter of Cai Yong, a great writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
First married to Wei Zhongdao. After her husband died, she returned to her home. Later, due to the invasion of the Huns, Cai Yan was kidnapped by the Xiongnu King Zuoxian, married to the Huns, and gave birth to two children.
Twelve years later, Cao Cao unified the north, redeemed Cai Yan with a large sum of money, and married her to Dong Si.
Cai Yan is also good at literature, music, and calligraphy.
"Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" records a volume of "Cai Wenji Collection", but it has been lost.
The only works of Cai Wenji that can be seen now are two "Poems of Sorrow and Indignation" and "Eighteen Beats of Hujia".
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