Top Ten Historical Celebrities in Suzhou
Lu Xun, Zhang Xu, Tang Yin, Jin Shengtan, Ye Shengtao, Gu Jiegang, Fei Xiaotong, Wang. Lu Xun was born in Wuxian County, Wu Jun. Wu, a statesman and strategist in the Three Kingdoms period. Zhang Xu, a native of Wuxian in Tang Dynasty, likes drinking. He and Huai Su are called "drunkards", and with whom they are called "Eight Immortals of Drinking". Tang Yin, the word Bohu, was born in Wuxian County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, Ming Dynasty. Famous painter, calligrapher and poet. Jin Shengtan, a writer and literary critic, was born in Wuxian, Suzhou in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Gu, a native of Kunshan, South Zhili, was a thinker and scholar in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Ye Shengtao is a modern writer, educator, literary publisher and social activist, and is known as an "excellent language artist". Gu Jiegang is a famous historian and folklorist in modern China, and the pioneer and founder of modern historical geography and folklore. Fei Xiaotong, a native of Wujiang, is a famous contemporary sociologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and social activist, and one of the founders of sociology and anthropology in China. Wang, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province, was once the president of China Institute of Atomic Energy, honorary chairman of the Central Committee of Jiu San Society, a nuclear physicist, one of the founders and pioneers of nuclear science in China, an academician of China Academy of Sciences, and the winner of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite Meritorious Medal". I.M. Pei, a master architect, was born in Suzhou, where his family has a history of one hundred years.