There were four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty, namely, Yang Jiong, Lu,.
Ou Yangxun, Chu Suiliang, Yu Shinan and Xue Ji, the four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty.
Cai Xiang, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fei, the four great calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun, Zhao Meng.
Guan Hanqing, Ma Zhiyuan, Zheng Guangzu and Bai Pu were the four great composers of Yuan Opera.
Huang, Zhenwu, Ni Zan and Wang Meng were four famous landscape painters in Yuan Dynasty.
Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming, Tang Yin and Chou Ying, the four great painters of Wumen in Ming Dynasty.
Wang Anshi, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, four great writers in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhiming and zhou wenbin were four gifted scholars in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.