Famous Persons
Huanggang prefecture is the birthplace of several famous Chinese inventors, scientists, and scholars, including:
- Bi Sheng, the inventor of movable type printing;
- Cheng Yi, ancient idealist philosopher;
- Li Shizhen, herbalist and author of the ancient medical classic Compendium of Materia Medica;
- Li Siguang, ecologist;
- Lin Biao, One of the ten marshals in China;
- Wen Yiduo, patriotic poet;
- Xiong Shili, a 20-century Chinese philosopher;
- Daman Hongren, the 5th Chán (Buddhist) Patriarch in the traditional lineage of Chinese Chan;
- Xu Fuguan, a Chinese historian and philosopher, notable for Confucian studies;
- Hu Feng, a Chinese writer and literary and art theorist;
- Chu Bong-Foo, the inventor of the Cangjie method, the most widely available Chinese input method, and the father of the modern Chinese computing;
- Huang Kan, a Chinese philologist.
As well, Huanggang is famous for breeding military and political leaders. Hongan County is known as the "County of Generals" in that more than 400 Chinese army generals have been born there, a total far greater than for any other county in all of China. In addition, former military leader and President of China, Li Xiannian (1909–1992), was born in Hongan.
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