Is Wei Yuan or Lin Zexu the first person in the world?

Open your eyes to see the world, the first person should be Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan (1794-65438 April 23 +0857 March 26), a celebrity, was born in Simenmen, Longhui County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province (formerly Jintan, Shaoyang County).

Enlightenment thinker, politician and writer in Qing Dynasty. He was a scholar in the second year of Daoguang (1822) and in the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang (1845). Guan Gaoyou knew the state, abandoned the official and retired in his later years, devoted himself to Buddhism and passed on his dharma name. China's first batch of intellectuals who "opened their eyes to see the world" in modern times.

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Wei Yuan believed that the purpose of learning should be "to apply what he has learned", and put forward the idea of "turning decay into magic and facilitating people", and advocated learning advanced western science and technology. And put forward the idea of "learning from foreigners to control foreigners", which opened a new trend of understanding the world and learning from the West, and was an important symbol of China's thought from tradition to modern times.