Bruce Lee (1940- 1973), a native of Foshan, was originally named Li, the son of a famous and ugly Cantonese opera. He studied martial arts with his father since childhood and worshipped famous teachers to practice wing chun boxing. He grew up in Hong Kong, where he attended primary and secondary schools, and then went to the Philosophy Department of Washington University in Seattle, USA to work part-time to maintain his studies. In the university, Bruce Lee organized a "China Kung Fu Team" with more than 10 students, who often performed in the school. After graduation, he rented a corner of a parking lot in Seattle and opened the Chinese Martial Arts Museum, which was named "Fan Zhen Martial Arts, painstakingly managed, taught himself as an apprentice, made greater progress in martial arts and gained profound leg skills.
Pan Yushu (1889- 1936), a native of Heqing Village, Jiujiang, Nanhai, was named Lin. He was a famous ceramic artist from Guangxu to the Republic of China in Qing Dynasty. When he was a teenager, he and his father Pan Jinzhi made "silk dolls" in Yuehuaxuan store in Foshan. Out of his love for Shiwan ceramic art, he began to secretly learn from Huang at the age of 14. It can be said that his works have laid a turning point or milestone in the development of pottery sculptures of Shiwan figures. He is good at absorbing and carrying forward the essence of Shiwan pottery tradition, and is good at learning the techniques of western sculpture and painting, and has conducted in-depth research on both of them, forming his own unique artistic style. He was brilliant and productive all his life. He not only has a deep foundation in folk sculpture, but also is good at absorbing the essence of foreign ceramics. His works are regarded by many as the development direction of Shiwan ceramic sculpture. "
Chen Qiyuan (1834- 1903), a native of Jianqiao Village, Nanhai, was the founder of the first national industry in modern China. 1873, Jichanglong Silk Reeling Factory, the first machine silk reeling factory operated by national capital in China, was established. Using the self-designed machine for reeling, the reeling technology has been improved, the production efficiency has been improved, the reeling industry has achieved greater development, and at the same time, it has promoted the development of mulberry planting and sericulture. Chen Qiyuan studied very hard all his life. He participated in the research of many new schools and Taixi School, and wrote books such as Silkworm and Mulberry Spectrum, Zhou Yili Shu Huitong and Chen Qiyuan Shu Xue. Chen Qiyuan was enthusiastic about public welfare all his life, and he was charitable. He opened a rice shop and a drugstore to help the lonely and poor, and gave doctors and medicines. At the same time, schools are set up to provide compulsory education for farmers' children, and huge sums of money are donated to build water conservancy projects such as water storage bucket and mulberry garden tail. There is an exhibition of Chen Qiyuan's life and places of interest in this memorial hall, which reproduces Chen Qiyuan's life of loving his country and benefiting his hometown. It is a place for the broad masses of the people and young people to carry out patriotic education.
Kang Youwei (1858- 1927) was the leader of the bourgeois reform movement in modern times. Formerly known as Zuyi, the word Guangsha, the name is long, the name is self-improvement, and the Nanhai people. Guangxu Jinshi 1888 wrote to Emperor Guangxu for the first time, and put forward three suggestions on the reform (becoming a law, being sensible and being cautious). However, due to many obstacles, a 10,000-acre thatched cottage was set up in Guangzhou on 1890, and disciples were called to give lectures to cultivate the backbone of the reform. His disciples are Liang Qichao, Chen, Xu Qin. 1895 tried to go to Beijing, but lost in Wu Jia, "Shimonoseki? Quot is about to sign the contract. So I contacted Liang Qichao and others to try out 1300 people in the provincial capital in 18, asking for a letter to refuse, move the capital and reform, which is called "writing on the bus" in history. This book is out of reach. After the Jinshi, he was appointed as the director of the Ministry of Industry, but he did not take office. In May, I wrote for the third time and was praised by Emperor Guangxu. In July, he and Liang Qichao founded Chinese and Foreign News. In August, he organized a powerful association with Wen and Wen in Beijing. Later, he set up a strong society in Shanghai and published a strong magazine to promote the national political reform movement. 1898, 1 in June, he wrote the book "Imperial Decree as a whole", advocating that the ministers made a big oath to determine the country, formulate countermeasures, recruit talents and talents, and set up a system to formulate the constitution. In April, he and Liang Qichao organized a national congress in Beijing, calling for saving the country and strengthening the country. In June, Emperor Guangxu was appointed as Zhang Jing, the Prime Minister's yamen, to plan political reform. After the failure of political reform, he fled to Japan. 1899 set up a royalist society in the United States, Southeast Asia and Japan to promote constitutional monarchy and oppose the bourgeois democratic revolution led by Sun Yat-sen. 19 13 returned to China to edit the magazine I can't stand it and promote the restoration of Confucius. 19 17 conspired with Zhang Xun to restore monarchy, but failed, and eventually became a politician during the rule of Beiyang warlords. 1927 died in Qingdao. He is the author of Textual Research on New Learning and Pseudo-Classics, Textual Research on Confucius' Reform, Datong Book, etc. Reference book "Foshan Historical and Cultural Dictionary".