1. Wang Guowei

Wang Guowei is a famous scholar with international reputation during the intersection of modern and modern China. In his early years, Wang Guowei pursued new learning, accepted the influence of bourgeois reformist ideas, and integrated Western philosophy and aesthetics with Chinese classical philosophy and aesthetics to form a unique aesthetic thought system. He has profound knowledge and innovation in education, philosophy, literature, opera and other aspects.

2. Xu Zhimo

Xu Zhimo is a modern poet and essayist from Xia Shi, Haining, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. He graduated from Hangzhou No. 1 Middle School in 1915 and studied at Shanghai Hujiang University, Tianjin Beiyang University and Peking University. In 1918, he went to Clark University in the United States to study banking. He is a representative poet of the Crescent School and a member of the Crescent Poetry Society. His representative works include "Farewell to Cambridge" and "A Night in the Emerald Green".

3. Jin Yong

Jin Yong’s real name was Cha Liangyong. He was born in Haining City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. He moved to Hong Kong in 1948. Contemporary martial arts novel writer, journalist, entrepreneur, political commentator, social activist, one of the "Four Great Talents in Hong Kong". Jin Yong passed away in Hong Kong on October 30, 2018, at the age of 94.

4. Jiang Baili

Jiang Baili was a famous military theorist and military educator during the Republic of China. In 1901, he studied abroad at the Japanese Army Sergeant School. He studied in Germany in 1906, and upon his return he served as the principal of the Baoding Army Military Academy and the acting principal of the Army University. In 1912, he was appointed as the principal of Baoding Army Officer School. In 1913, he served as the first-class counselor of the Presidential Palace of Yuan Shikai.

5. Tan Qian

Tan Qian was a historian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, who called himself "a survivor of Jiangzuo". Starting from the first year of Ming Dynasty (1621), it lasted more than 20 years and "six drafts were revised and compiled into a hundred volumes" to complete a chronicled history of the Ming Dynasty with a total of 5 million words, named "Guoyan". His other works include "Zaolin Zazu", "Beiyou Lu", "Zaolin Collection", etc.

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