Four Bachelor of Sumen: Huang Tingjian, Zhang Lei, Chao and Qin Guan have all traveled to Sumen, collectively known as the Four Bachelor of the World.
The four masters of Yuan Opera: Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu, represent the achievements of different schools of zaju in different periods of Yuan Dynasty. They are called "the four masters of Yuanqu".
Four talented women in ancient China: Cai Wenji, Li Qingzhao, Zhuo Wenjun and Shangguan Waner.
Four talented women in the Republic of China: Lv Bicheng, Xiao Hong, Shi Pingmei and Zhang Ailing.
Sima Xiangru, Yang Xiong, Ban Gu and Zhang Heng, the four masters of Han Fu, were famous for their great works in Han Dynasty.
"Four Great Talents" generally refers to the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty-Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing. They are quick-thinking and talented, proficient in poetry and prose, or good at painting, calligraphy or arts and sciences. They are famous painters and writers in Ming Dynasty. They created many famous paintings, calligraphy and poems, which have been handed down continuously.