Specific explanation:

The first sage, no matter in which statement, whether ancient or contemporary, is indisputable, and that is Confucius. Confucius led the culture of China for more than two thousand years, and it is still of great significance until now. He is also one of the most recognized and widely spread schools of China philosophy in the world. Confucius is well known, so I won't introduce it much.

The second sage is Wang Yangming, a great scholar in the Ming Dynasty (there seems to be an actor with that name now? In short, it is not a person). Wang Yangming, the founder of psychology, put forward the great theory of "the unity of knowledge and action".

When he was a child, his teachers and parents always advised him to take the top prize, but he didn't care: is it the only ideal in life to take the top prize? I was determined to be a saint when I was born! Wang Yangming said that his ideal of life is very clear, that is, the four words written by Zhang Zai, the master of the Northern Song Dynasty: to stand for the world, to stand for the people, to carry forward the past and the future, and to be peaceful for all generations.

It has been pointed out that although Zeng Guofan is very powerful, his academic thoughts are the length of a hundred schools, but he does not have his own theoretical system. Compared with Confucius' Confucianism and Wang Yangming's mind, Zeng Guofan is slightly inferior. However, in any case, all three of them are very great people, and they are worth learning from our future generations.

Due to the influence of Confucianism, some people will call people who return to nature and have no name or surname (unimpeded and not burdened by everything in the world) "saints", but in fact, Laozi advocates "abandoning wisdom" (the sage here refers to the sage respected by Confucianism, but it also shows that the word saint is specifically aimed at Confucianism), so this title violates the original intention of Taoism.

The realm of Taoism corresponding to Confucian "sages" is "fairy truth". However, in the practice of Taoism, there is a saying that "pregnant with a holy child", and some Taoist gods and Buddhists sometimes call "Buddha" a saint, which is influenced by Confucianism. Also known as "Saint".