Culture

With such a long history, Jinan has given birth to talented people from generation to generation. 

Historical celebrities born in what is now Jinan include: Bian Que (real name Qin Yueren), a famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor in the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC); Zou Yan, an ancient philosopher best known as the representative thinker of the Yin and Yang School and the Five Elements in the Warring States Period; Fu Sheng, a scholar of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) who dictated 28 articles of The Book of History; Zhong Jun, a diplomat of the Han Dynasty, who took the initiative to negotiate with the Nanyue Kingdom and made contributions to the reunification of the country; Du Fuwei and Fu Gongshi, leaders of a peasant uprising in the late Sui Dynasty (581-618); politician Fang Xuanling; a famous general Qin Qiong; eminent monk Yijing (original name Zhang Wenming) in the Tang Dynasty (618-907); two Song Dynasty (960-1279) poets Li Qingzhao and Xin Qiji; Sanqu poets of the Jin and Yuan dynasties (1115-1368), Zhang Yanghao and Du Renjie; Zhang Qiyan, editor-in-chief of three official history books of the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties (960-1234); Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) litterateurs Bian Gong, Li Panlong, Li Kaixian and Yu Shenxing; classicist Zhang Erqi; Zhou Yongnian, chief compiler of Siku Quanshu (The Emperor's Four Treasuries); philologist Ma Guohan in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); and Meng Luochuan, a national industrialist in modern times.