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Historical celebrity Tan.

Tan's historical celebrities include Tan Sitong, Tan Tingxiang and Tan Lun.

1, Tan Sitong: (1865-1898), a native of Liuyang, Hunan. Son of Tan Jixun, an official in the late Qing Dynasty. China was a reformer, politician and thinker, and one of the "six gentlemen" in the late Qing Dynasty.

2. Tan Tingxiang: Tan Tingxiang (? -1870), born in Zhu Yahua Society in Yinshan (now Shaoxing County, Zhejiang Province). In the 13th year of Qing Daoguang (1833), he was a scholar, and later served as imperial academy Jishi Shu, director of punishments, doctor, Baoding magistrate, Shaanxi governor and Zhili governor.

3. Tan Lun: Tan Lun (1August 4, 520-1April 20, 577) was born in Tan Fang, Yihuang County, Jiangxi Province (now Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province). Ming dynasty anti-Japanese star, strategist, dramatist and national hero.

Tan, one of Chinese surnames. Tan's surname mainly comes from the Yi surname, and there are fewer people from other sources (minority Heping changed his surname). According to legend, during the reign of Yao, there was a flood in the Central Plains. After Yu succeeded in controlling water, Shun took Yu as his surname. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, when the vassal state was enfeoffed, a branch of the Yu family was made a son in Tanzhou (now the west of Zhangqiu County, Shandong Province) because of its outstanding military achievements. The descendants of this surname take the country as their surname.