Celebrities in lanling town

Xunzi, a great thinker and educator at the end of the Warring States, a summoner of a hundred schools of thought contending in the pre-Qin period, and a master of Confucian culture, left a touching legend of "piling up copper and scattering gold" for later generations, as well as Xiao, the pioneer of the Book of Changes and an important official assisted by the posthumous edict of Emperor Hanzhao.

The prime minister of the Han and Yuan emperors, the physician of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the writer of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the writer Miao of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, there was a famous opera writer Jia, who wrote a great literary work, The Wonder Book in the World and Jin Ping Mei.

Modern famous calligraphers, Guangxu scholars and pioneers of the New Culture Movement all shine in this land.

Tian Bing (19 15 -2003), formerly known as Wang Yancheng, was born in Lanling, Linyi County (now Lanling Village, Lanling Town, Cangshan County), a famous modern poet and a master of national folk literature.