Notable People
- Li Bai 李白 (701–762), one of the greatest poets of the Tang Dynasty
- Kuei-feng Tsung-mi 圭峰宗密(780–841), a Tang dynasty Buddhist scholar-monk, fifth patriarch of the Huayan 華嚴 school as well as a patriarch of the Heze lineage of Southern Chan
- Ouyang Xiu 歐陽脩 (1007–September 22, 1072), Confucian historian, essayist, calligrapher, poet, and official bureaucrat of the Song Dynasty
- Su Xun 蘇洵, a poem and prose-writer of the Song Dynasty
- Su Shi 蘇軾 (January 8, 1037–August 24, 1101),Confucian bureaucrat official, a poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and official bureaucrat of the Song Dynasty
- Su Zhe 蘇轍 (1039–1112), a poet and essayist, Confucian bureaucratic official of the Song Dynasty
- Ba Jin 巴金 (November 25, 1904–October 17, 2005), a Chinese novelist and writer
- Deng Xiaoping, politician of PRC
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