Yuzhou, the name of an administrative division in ancient China, is one of the ancient Chinese Kyushu, because it is located in Kyushu, so it is also known as Zhongzhou. Most of today's Henan Province belongs to Yuzhou, so it is referred to as "Henan".

History: Jinghe Weiyu Prefecture. Yi, Luo, Qian, and Jian are both into the river, and Xingbo is a pig. Dao Heze, was Meng pig. The soil is only soil, and the earth is mound. The field is only in the middle, and the wrong is in the middle. Tribute lacquer, fi, silk, silk, tin tribute chime. Floating in Luo, reaching the river. Xia Yu divides the world into Kyushu, Yuzhou is located in Kyushu, with Henan as the center, east of Shandong, Anhui, north of Hebei, Shanxi, south of Hubei, has reached its heyday several times in history, and has long been in China's political, economic and cultural center.

Henan is the birthplace of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization, and the three major technologies of the four major inventions of China, such as compass, papermaking and gunpowder, were all invented in Henan. In history, there have been more than 20 dynasties to build or move the capital to Henan, China's eight ancient capitals Henan has four, namely the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties Luoyang, the ancient capital of the eight dynasties Kaifeng, the ancient capital of the seven dynasties Anyang, the ancient capital of Zhengzhou, and Shangqiu, Nanyang, Xuchang, Puyang and other ancient capitals, for the province with the most dynasties for China, the longest history of the capital, and the largest number of ancient capitals. From the Xia Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, Henan has been the political, economic, cultural, and transportation center of China.

Since ancient times, Henan has the saying that "more than half of the world's celebrities, Zhongzhou is more than half", and there are historical celebrities such as Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mozi, Han Feizi, Fan Li, Shang Ying, Su Qin, Lü Buwei, Li Si, Jia Yi, Zhang Heng, Du Fu, Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, Li Shangyin, Li He, Yue Fei and so on.

The seat of Yuzhou is in Ancheng, and it has jurisdiction over 9 counties of Yingchuan County, Chen County, Lu County, Runan County, Qian County, Yiyang County, Yangan County, Xiangcheng County, and Ruyin County, as well as 2 countries of Liang and Peiguo.

During the Three Kingdoms era, there were many celebrities in Yuzhou, let's introduce them one by one.

1. Zhong Xuan:

Zhong Xuan (politician and calligrapher during the Three Kingdoms period)

Zhong 繇 (yáo, 一作yóu) (151-230), character Yuan Chang. Yingchuan Changshe (now Changgedong, Xuchang, Henan) people. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Wei was a famous calligrapher and politician.

Zhong Xuan was extraordinary in appearance and intelligent in his early years. He successively served as Shang Shulang, Huangmen Shilang and other positions, helped the Han Dynasty to return to the east and made meritorious contributions, and was named the Marquis of Dongwu Pavilion. Later, he was entrusted with an important task by Cao Cao, and was the captain of the school, guarding the Guanzhong, and made outstanding achievements. Move the former military division with merit. The Wei State was established, Ren Dali, and was promoted to the Xiangguo. After the establishment of Cao Wei, he successively served as Tingwei, Taiwei, Taifu and other positions, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Dingling. During the period of Emperor Wen of Wei, he was the third duke with Hua Xin and Wang Lang. In the fourth year of Taihe (230 years), Zhong Xuan died at the age of eighty, and his nickname was "Cheng". In the first four years (243 years), he was worthy of Cao Caoting Temple.

Zhong Xuan is good at seal, li, true, line, cursive calligraphy, in calligraphy, quite attained, promote the development of regular script (small Kai), by later generations respected as the "originator of regular script". Zhong Xuan had a profound influence on later generations of calligraphy, and Wang Xizhi and others have devoted themselves to studying his calligraphy. Together with the Eastern Jin Dynasty calligrapher Wang Xizhi, he is called "King Zhong". Yu Shouwu of the Southern Dynasty listed Zhong Xuan's calligraphy as "above the top grade", and Tang Zhang Huaijun commented on his calligraphy as "divine product" in "Book Break".

According to the book "Zhilin" by Yu Xi of the Western Jin Dynasty, Zhong Xuan once found that Wei Dan had Cai Yong's secret of practicing pen on his seat, so he begged Wei Dan to lend him a copy, but because the book was too precious, Wei Dan did not give it to him, and although he begged hard, Wei Dan still did not agree to lend it to him. So Zhong Xuan suddenly lost his temper, beat his chest, hit his chest with his fist, scarred, and spit blood in his mouth. After making a fuss like this for three days, he finally fainted and was dying, Cao Cao immediately ordered someone to give first aid, Cao Cao took out five elixirs for him to take, Zhong Xuan did not die, and gradually recovered. Despite this, Wei Dan was still iron-hearted and ignored him, Zhong Xuan was helpless, and often broke his head about this matter. It wasn't until after Wei Dan's death that Zhong Miao sent someone to dig up his tomb and got this "Cai Bo Jiao Brushwork". Since then, Zhong Xuan's calligraphy has progressed rapidly, and it has become more and more subtle. Zhong Xuan was engrossed in the study of calligraphy, sometimes writing with his fingers while lying on the bed, often piercing the quilt that covered his body. Sometimes when I go to the toilet, I forget to come out. He saw all kinds of objects and thought of calligraphy, trying to write and draw them. Zhong Xuan is also very good at three-color books (i.e., inscription stone books, charter books, and line books).

This incident is a fiction of the family, Wei Dan died more than 20 years later than Zhong Xuan, how could Zhong Xuan steal Wei Dan's copy? Moreover, as an important minister of the imperial court, how could Zhong Miao be so rude? However, we can see that Zhong Xuan has indeed made unremitting efforts to improve his calligraphy.

In his later years, Zhong Xuan often said that he was not in court, and when someone asked him why, he said: "There are often good women who come, and they are very beautiful." "People told him that this was a monster and that you were going to kill her. Later, the woman came to Zhong Xuan again, but she did not dare to go forward and stood outside the door. When Zhong asked her why she didn't come in, the woman said, "You want to kill me." Zhong Xuan said, "There is nothing," and after saying that he had made a cordial invitation, the woman went into his house. Zhong Xuan wanted to kill her, but he felt very sorry to kill her, and he couldn't do it. But in the end, she still cut her thigh, and the woman immediately ran out, wiping the blood from the cotton wool in her clothes, and the blood flowed all over the road. The next day, Zhong Xuan asked people to search along the bloodstains, and found a large tomb, in which there was a beautiful woman in the coffin, with a living appearance and body, dressed in white silk clothes, embroidered on the shoulder, and the left thigh was wounded, and the woman wiped the blood on the leg with the cotton wool in the shoulder. The story is told by Lu Yun.

According to the record of "Shuyuan Jinghua", when Zhong Xuan was dying, he called his son Zhong Hui to his side, handed him a calligraphy secret technique, and told Zhong Hui the story of his hard work. He said that he spent more than 30 years of his life concentrating on learning calligraphy, mainly from Cai Yong's calligraphy skills. In the process of learning, no matter day or night, regardless of the occasion and place, write when you have time, and practice when you have the opportunity. Sit and talk with people, and practice on the ground around you. When I rested at night, I used the quilt as paper, but after a long time, the quilt made a big hole. When you see natural scenery such as flowers and trees, insects, fish, birds and beasts, you will associate it with brushwork, and sometimes you go to the toilet and forget to come back. This shows that Zhong Xuan's calligraphy art is indeed the result of his own hard work. While practicing hard, Zhong Xuan also paid great attention to learning from his contemporaries, such as often discussing the use of pen methods with Cao Cao, Handan Chun, Wei Dan, Sun Zijing, Guan Loquat and others. Zhong Xuan is not only strict with himself, but also strict with his disciples and protégés. It is said that Zhong Yi's disciple Song Yi studied seriously, but the effect was not great, Zhong Yi angrily reprimanded him in person, and Song Yi did not dare to meet the teacher for three years. In the end, Song Yi finally succeeded in learning and became famous. For his son Zhong Hui, Zhong Hui also often spoke bitterly, admonished in every way, Zhong Hui finally made great achievements, Zhong Xuan, Zhong Hui father and son are known as "big and small clocks".

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