Chen Baisha ( Cantonese Jyutping: Chan4 baak6 saa1; Chinese traditional: 陳白沙／陳獻章)(1428–1500) is one of

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

's well-known Cantonese Confucian scholars, poets, and calligraphers, during the Ming dynasty. He was born in Xinhui and was considered to be the first scholar to coming out from Xinhui and Guangdong. As early as 1464, when Chen was teaching in Baisha, Guangdong, his scholarship was already highly regarded. In 1466, at the age of thirty-nine, Chen travelled to Beijing and re-entered the National Academy. He was praised by Xing Rang and started a new trend of teaching. When Chen Baisha died in 1500, left behind a distinguished line of students, many of whom by then were holding high office. Among them, Liang Chu and

Zhan Ruoshui Zhan Ruoshui (, 1466–1560), was a Chinese philosopher, educator and a Confucian scholar. Biography Zhan was born in Zengcheng, Guangdong. He was appointed the president of Nanjing Guozijian (南京國子監, the Imperial Nanjing University) in ...

were senior officials, and Huang Zuo, besides being a senior official.Emperor and ancestor: state and lineage in South China
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