1. Qu Yuan (352 BC-28 BC1) was a poet and thinker of the State of Chu during the Warring States Period. His masterpieces include Li Sao and Nine Chapters. Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate it, and the poem "Songs of the South" is the pioneering work of China's romantic poetry. The spirit of caring for the country and loving the people is an important source of Huxiang culture and has a far-reaching influence on later generations.
2. Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), a philosopher, was born in Daozhou, Northern Song Dynasty. His representative works include Illustration of Taiji and General Book, and he was the originator of Confucian philosophy. Inheriting Confucius and Mencius' theory, guiding the transformation from Confucian classics to natural theory and influencing the formation of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism are the ideological basis of Huxiang culture and the theoretical source of Huxiang School.
3. Zhang Wei (1133-1180), a native of Mianzhu in the Southern Song Dynasty, was a philosopher and educator. His masterpieces include The Analects of Confucius and Mencius, and he was a master of Huxiang School. Together with Zhu, he is also known as the "Three Sages of Southeast China". He gave lectures in Yuelu Academy and Chengnan Academy successively, and trained a large number of Huxiang talents, which made Huxiang School reach its peak.
4. Wang Fuzhi (16 19- 1692), an outstanding thinker and philosopher in the late Ming Dynasty, was called Mr. Chuanshan. When the Qing army entered the Central Plains, Wang Fuzhi devoted himself to anti-Qing and ended in failure, so he lived in seclusion for life and took writing as his career. Zhang Taiyan called it "the source of national rejuvenation". "In modern times, all those who advocated righteousness started from the wind, and the water source was wood, and they were honored in Sri Lanka."
5. Wei Yuan (1794— 1857), a thinker in Jintan in Qing Dynasty, is the masterpiece of Atlas of the Sea. Advocating new ideas, China was the first person who "opened his eyes to see the world" in modern times, and put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", which laid the ideological foundation for the rise of Westernization School in the late Qing Dynasty.