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What are the traditional figures in China? Thank you for your questions.

Confucius, Lao Zi, Sun Zi, Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi and Lao Zi are the most influential philosophers in China and the founders of Taoism. According to legend, he was born in the 6th century BC, but his death is unknown. Laozi's philosophy of ignorance, knowing what is normal and doing nothing (knowing what is law and not doing it), advocates primitive natural life, which is far from the western tradition of advocating rationality, emphasizing creation and striving to transform nature. Nature cannot be praised and understood by many westerners. Many westerners only know the name of Laozi, but they don't know the name of Laozi's theory, and I don't know the facts of Laozi's theory. The contemporary grandson of Confucius is the most influential figure in the history of China on the development of the world academic circles. He is generally regarded as the author of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Although this view is not very reliable, the main content of Sun Tzu's Art of War comes from Sun Tzu's Art of War. This "the best military book in the world" has had a great influence on China's military science and history for more than two thousand years. Any western treatise that systematically discusses the history of military thought cannot fail to mention this oldest and most influential military work in the world. On the title page of his masterpiece, liddell hart, a famous modern western military scientist, quoted a famous saying in Sun Tzu's The Art of War in large sections. There was an entrepreneur in Japan who used Sun Tzu's art of war to manage his own business, and he also achieved great success. The art of war has also stood the test of time. From the19th century to the pre-World War II, clausewitz, a German military scientist, blindly emphasized violence and bloodshed to achieve political goals, which swept the military academic circles in Europe and America. However, after World War II, with the emergence of nuclear weapons and the increasing threat of nuclear war, his views have been spurned by many people. Sun Tzu's view that "the good will be the good if the enemy is defeated without fighting" has been regarded by more and more people as the military norm in the nuclear age. What westerners most accept and admire is Sun Tzu's thoughts, not those of Confucius, Laozi and Xunzi. It would be nice if China could have several grandchildren from academic circles. In 22 1 year BC, Qin Shihuang unified China, which had been divided for hundreds of years, and established centralization of authority, which has an influence to this day. The first iron-fisted emperor taxed the people and built water conservancy and civil engineering. He also unified national weights and measures and writing. The name of the powerful Qin Dynasty spread abroad, and foreign countries called China "Qin" (zhina). He is the first politician in China who enjoys a world reputation and the second most famous monarch. Among the ancient emperors in China, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was the most internationally renowned. In the eyes of westerners, he was the king at the peak of China in ancient times and the most successful emperor in China. He respected Confucianism as the official theory and strengthened centralization of authority. He conquered a large area of land south of the Yangtze River and a part of Korea, and opened up the "Silk Road" with far-reaching significance in the communication between China and the West. He made the Chinese Empire achieve the prosperity of the Roman Empire in the same period. Some western scholars think that he can be called Caesar, Alexander or Octavian of China.