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Who are the Eight Saints in ancient China and their titles?

Wensheng: Kong Qiu, whose name is Zhong Ni, was a thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in the late Spring and Autumn Period. He is the son of 3000 families and 72 saints. All the feudal rulers of past dynasties called him a saint.

Shi Sheng: Sima Qian, a famous historian and writer in the Western Han Dynasty, is the author of Historical Records, the first biographical general history in China. When studying the relationship between man and nature, we can learn from the changes of ancient and modern times and become a unified statement. Later people called it Shi Sheng.

Poet Saint: Du Fu, with beautiful language, was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty. Guo Moruo called him and Li Bai "Gemini" in the history of China literature, and scholars of past dynasties called them poets.

Book sage: Wang Xizhi, word Yizhi, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He is vigorous and neat, and he is the author of Preface to Lanting Collection and Huang Ting Classic. People call him a book saint.

Cao Sheng: Zhang Xu, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, is good at cursive script, singing and dancing, especially in the old cursive script.

Sage of Painting: Wu Daozi, a famous painter in Tang Dynasty, is especially good at figure painting. He is known as "the wind in the Wu Dynasty", so he is a sage of painting.

Wusheng: Guan Yu, a famous soldier of Shu at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was highly skilled in martial arts and attached great importance to loyalty. He is also known as Guandi and Guan Sheng.

Cha Sheng: Lu Yu, a native of Tang Dynasty, is famous for his love of tea. He wrote three volumes of tea classics, so he was named Cha Sheng.