Confucian scholar and educator of Miao nationality in Ming Dynasty. Chen Zhou Town, Ming Dynasty, was born in Shanglao Village, Jishou Township, with an unknown date of birth and death. He is the first generation of Han and Miao cultural intellectuals since the Tang and Song Dynasties. 2. Luo Rongguang
General in late Qing dynasty. Zi Yao Ting was born in Yaxi Village, Ganzhou Hall (now Jishou City), Hunan Province in the 13th year of Qing Daoguang (1833). Zeng Guofan was originally a subordinate of Zeng Guofan. He was the general manager at first, and later joined the Huai army. Worked in Shanghai (now Shanghai) foreign gun team and was promoted to general manager. Tongzhi for six years (1867), he was promoted to prefect for suppressing the Nian army. In the second year of Guangxu (1876), he was stationed in Tianjin, served as the vice president of the Drum Club, and was awarded to Guo Yong Batulu. In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), he was promoted to be the commander-in-chief of Tianjin Town (now Tianjin) and guarded Dagukou Fort, the gateway of Beijing and Tianjin, for 24 years, and was known as "the first coastal defense in the world". In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), he was promoted to the position of general inspector of Kashgar, Xinjiang. 3. Wu August
Also known as sharping. Pinglong people of Qingganzhou Guild Hall (now Ping Long Village, Shetangpo Township, Jishou City, which belonged to Phoenix Guild Hall in Qing Dynasty, was later placed under Ganzhou Guild Hall, which is now Jishou City). Born in the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), he was an outstanding leader of the anti-Qing uprising of Miao people in Gansu, Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Ba Dexiong, the primitive religion of the Miao nationality, gave Wu Hualing a dharma name, and August Xiao, the honorific name in the Miao Wulin, was the Miao surname, that is, Wu, and August Xiao was Wu August. 4. Zhang Yizun
Ding Yao, alias Tiexiang, was born in Taiping Township, Jishou City (1902). He loved horses since he was a child, painted horses, and learned to call them rolling. Everyone called him a "horse fan". 1922, after graduating from Yuanling United Middle School, he went to Changsha and was admitted to the barracks of Wuwei Military Academy. After joining the army, he served as company commander, battalion commander, major adjutant, lieutenant colonel director and colonel section chief. 1934 The Kuomintang Fourth Route Army was reorganized and listed as an supernumerary colonel. After editing at home, he specialized in calligraphy and painting, and made rapid progress under the guidance of Huang Tiean, a famous stone carver in Hunan and Hubei. 1937, when he was preparing to hold a personal painting and calligraphy exhibition in Japan, the "July 7" Lugouqiao Incident occurred and the Dongdu plan was cancelled. He was sent to Ren Baoan and Gancheng by the Hunan provincial government as the head of the temporary delegation, and later served as the deputy commander of Yuanling Air Defense Major General. He travels around places of interest, is a full-time painter, is famous for painting horses and mountains, and also has poems and calligraphy works. Published Zhang Yizhun's Painting. He has held solo exhibitions in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Guiyang, Guilin, Changsha and Hengyang, and some of his works have participated in previous national art exhibitions. Although I haven't been to a special art school, I have devoted myself to studying ancient methods, melting the essence into one furnace, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, and not falling behind my predecessors. What is most praised by the world is that when he painted a horse, he only used a draft. He often draws a ponytail first, then a horse's body and then a horse's head. He skillfully used pen and ink to draw a picture in an instant, which is both vivid and lifelike. Representative works include Sanma, Eight Horses, Wan, etc. Known as one of the "four outstanding horses" in China, it has the reputation of "North Xu (Xu Beihong) South Zhang".