2. Laozi, the author of Tao Te Ching, whose thought is the beginning of Taoist culture in China. Mr. Lu Xun once said: (To the effect) China's cultural roots are all in Taoism. During the feudal rule of more than 2,000 years, Confucianism was displayed externally and Huang Lao was used internally.
3. Confucius, the founder of Confucian culture, has influenced China, Asia and even the world, and has become the spiritual godfather of China's ruling culture.
Sun Wu, the author of The Art of War, is the greatest military thinker in the whole human history. His military thoughts and laws have guided almost all wars on earth.
Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet in ancient China, wrote many immortal poems and became the founder of ancient romantic poems in China. The style of Chuci, which he created, is unique in the history of China literature, and it is also called "Sao" with the Book of Songs, which has had a positive impact on later poetry creation.
6. Ying Zheng was the first politician to unify the whole country. He founded autocratic centralization and applied it to the whole feudal society in China. Mao Zedong's poem once said, "All previous dynasties were good at Qin politics and law".
7. Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang was an outstanding politician, strategist and conductor in the history of China. He made outstanding contributions to the development of the Han nationality, the unification and strength of China and the development of China culture. Liu Bang was also the first emperor in the history of China to be enthroned by a civilian, and created many firsts.
8. Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first founder of the prosperous feudal period, achieved the first political, economic, cultural and military unification. Its internal economic prosperity and cultural prosperity and unity created the idea of great unity, militarily fought back against the Huns, expanded its territory, and gained worldwide prestige, becoming the most powerful dynasty in the world at that time.
9. Dong Zhongshu, a thinker of the Western Han Dynasty. He summarized the Confucian ethical thought as "three cardinal guides and five permanents", and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted Dong Zhongshu's suggestion. Since then, Confucianism has become the official philosophy and continues to this day. His educational thought and the theory of "great unity" and "the feeling between man and nature" provided the theoretical basis for the later feudal rulers.
10. Sima Qian was a great historian, writer and thinker in ancient China, and was honored as "Shi Sheng" by later generations. His greatest contribution was the creation of China's first biography, Historical Records. Sima Qian's historical masterpiece "Historical Records" is the first of the "twenty-five histories" and is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, and Li Sao has no rhyme".