The cultural celebrities in the history of Hailufeng, Guangdong are as follows:

1. Peng Pai (1896-1929), a native of Haifeng, a Chinese proletarian revolutionary and the king of the Chinese peasant movement. One of the early leaders of the Party’s peasant movement. His original name was Peng Hanyu, a native of Qiaodong Community, a suburb of Haifeng County, Guangdong Province (now Haicheng Town, Haifeng County, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province). He had used pseudonyms such as Wang Zi'an and Meng An.

Born from an industrial and commercial landlord family. He joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League in 1921 and transferred from the League to the Communist Party of China in early 1924. In October 1927, after leading an armed uprising in the Hailufeng area of ??Guangdong (today's Shanwei City), the Soviet governments of Haifeng and Lufeng counties were established (this was China's first rural Soviet government). He died heroically in Longhua, Shanghai on August 30, 1929 at the age of 33.

2. Zhong Jingwen (1903~2002) was born in Haifeng. Master of Chinese studies, poet, essayist, educator. He is known as the "Father of Chinese Folklore". Born in Gingpingyu Street, Haifeng County, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, Han nationality. He devoted his life to education and the research and creation of folk literature and folklore, making outstanding contributions. He is a Chinese folklorist, folk literature master, and modern prose writer.

Studied at Waseda University, the top private university in Japan. Arrives in Hangzhou in the autumn of 1928. He first taught Chinese in a high-end business school, and then transferred to Zhejiang University as a lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences. At this time, in addition to continuing to study folk literature and publishing papers and translations, he was also enthusiastic about the creation of essays and sketches. While teaching at Sun Yat-sen University and Zhejiang University, he was actively engaged in the research and literary creation of folk literature and folklore.

3. Ma Sicong (1912~1987) was born in Haifeng County. The first president of the Central Conservatory of Music, he is the first generation of violin music composers and performers in China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he successively served as conductor of the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, director of the Department of Art and Music in Guangzhou, principal of the Shanghai Chinese Music School, and president of the Hong Kong Chinese Conservatory of Music.

After 1950, he served as the first dean of the Central Conservatory of Music, and concurrently served as vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association and chief editor of "Music Creation". Ma Sicong passed away in Philadelphia, USA on May 20, 1987.

4. Lu Yinan (1936-1995), mathematician, director, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; known as "one of the superstars of Chinese mathematics". After graduating from high school in 1956, Lu Yinian was admitted to the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Peking University with excellent results. Due to financial difficulties at home, he only took a few old clothes and a pack of books and hit the road.

When he arrived in Guangzhou, the Provincial Admissions Office gave him a train ticket to Beijing, and he entered Peking University barefoot, taking a crucial step in his life. Graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Peking University in 1962. After graduation, he engaged in mathematics research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has made remarkable achievements in the fields of "Meropure Numerical Distribution Theory of Riemannian Surfaces" and "Complex Analytical Dynamic System Theory".

5. Chen Yang (1954-) was born in Lufeng. Born in Guangzhou Army Hospital in 1954, after graduating from Guangzhou No. 17 Middle School, he studied at a normal school for 2 years and worked as a teacher in Huadu for 5 years (he was known as Chen Sir at the time). Later, he worked in the Education Department of Guangzhou No. 99 Middle School, where he was ridiculed. Then he worked at a radio station, and then moved to the Foshan Reporter Station where he worked for 15 years.

He is not a star and has not gone to college, but his hosting style of criticizing current ills and being close to the public has won him many awards. He proposed "New Guangzhou Humanism" and advocated the concept of "Friendly Guangzhou and Just Guangzhou". Chen Yang has almost become a cultural term in Guangzhou.

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