Wuwei has produced celebrities who have made outstanding contributions to society.

Amethyst Tang, named Xue Qiao, was a scholar in the 19th year of Jiaqing (18 14), edited by the Imperial Academy and the National History Museum. He was appointed as the "Imperial Teacher" of Daoguang because of his beautiful words. In Wuwei, Jiaqing, Qing Dynasty, there were more than 600 Jinshi and 52 juren in 30 years, but only 14 Jinshi were admitted to imperial academy and only 6 were admitted to imperial academy. Moreover, according to the "official system" of the Qing Dynasty at that time, only "fake Hanlin" entered the Hanlin Academy, and only those who entered the library three years later were qualified to become "real Hanlin". In the Qing Dynasty, there were 45 China Jinshi in Wuwei. There were 10 "fake Hanlin" and only 1 "real Hanlin", which was Niu Jian. In the 11th year of Daoguang (183 1), Niu Jian used Daofu. Since then, he has served as a grain depot, provincial judge, magistrate and minister in charge. In the 19th year of Daoguang (1839), he served as the governor of Jiangsu, and was soon promoted to the governor of Henan. In September of the 21st year of Daoguang (184 1), he was awarded the title of Governor of Liangjiang. It was not until the summer of 1842 that he signed the treaty of nanking with Britain on behalf of the Qing government aboard the British ship "Gao Huali" on Xiaguan River in Nanjing, and he fell into infamy from then on.

Li Yi (748-829) was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The word Yu Jun is from Longxi Ancient Tibetan (now Wuwei, Gansu). In the fourth year of Dali, he was promoted to Jinshi and awarded Zheng County Commandant. If you don't adjust for a long time, you won't be satisfied. You travel north and master, and Liu Ji in Youzhou turns to work. Help poetry with goods, and hope with resentment. When Xian Zong was a secretary, he was called a junior supervisor and a bachelor in Jixian Hall. He is conceited and neglected by many people. The public won't allow him. Chen Chen cited poems about Youzhou and fell into the ranks of scattered people. Russia was reused as a secretary supervisor, moved to a prince guest, set up a virtuous bachelor, sentenced to hospital affairs, and turned right to ride a regular waiter. At the beginning of Taihe, he was appointed as an official of the Ministry of Rites. In a good sang good poems, and by the end of Zhenyuan, he was as famous as his ancestor Li He. Every time you write a song, the musicians in the workshop ask for it by bribery and sing it as a sacrificial song. His "Song of Recruitment" and "Morning Walk" were painted as barriers by busybodies. Its most famous representatives are "Jiangnan Ci" and "Watching the Wall at Night". The former is about a woman, because her husband is a businessman in Qutang, and he can't get together every day, so she can't help secretly regretting: "If I thought the tide was so regular, I might choose a river boy" (if I knew, I might marry a frolic! After all, there is a definite time for the ebb and flow of the tide, and you can always get along with the frolicters, which is much better than being a businessman's wife. Psychological description can be described as vivid and meticulous. The latter is about the homesickness of the soldiers guarding the border in the surrendered city. "I don't know where to play the flute, and I miss my hometown all night." Melodious reed pipes evoke long-lost homesickness, which makes people feel sympathetic and sad to read. Set one volume, and now make up two volumes of poems (volumes 282 and 283 of the whole Tang poetry).

Qi Luzhen, an anti-Qing righteous man

Qi was born in Wuwei County (now Bei 'an Village, Shuangcheng Town). Born in the seventh year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1868), Wu Xiucai was born in Guangxu. He is good at painting and calligraphy, both civil and military, and has great prestige among the villagers.

At the end of Qing Dynasty, foreign enemies invaded frequently, internal affairs were corrupt, the economy was depressed, the people were poor, and the whole society was in turmoil. The bourgeois-democratic revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, after many armed struggles, has rapidly expanded its influence, such as starting a prairie fire. Located in the border of Hexi, due to successive years of famine, farming is not prosperous, and the broad masses of people suffer from corrupt officials and exorbitant taxes, and complain a lot. In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1908), on August 16th of the lunar calendar, a peasant uprising with Qi Feiqing as the head and society as the backbone broke out in Wuwei.

When the riots broke out, farmers from four townships and six canals flocked to the city gate and asked the county government to reduce taxes. They destroyed the patrol post on the fourth street and copied the houses of Wang Zuocai, Cai, Li Tesheng and others. , arrest hall, magistrate of a county Mei Shunan three people were injured, panic over the wall and fled. At the same time, the yamen military police have been secretly dispatched, with fast guns and sabres in their hands, and rushed to the villagers. Because the villagers did not go through careful organization and combat training, most of the weapons in their hands were farm tools, which could not resist the knife and were immediately washed away. Under the cover of villagers, they fled in disguise, and Liu Fuji, Liu Fu Ji, Liu Fu Ji, Liu Fu Ji and Liu Fu were arrested and killed.

After Qi Luzhen fled, she contacted some revolutionaries and accepted revolutionary ideas. In the second autumn of Xuantong (19 10), he sneaked back to Wuwei to carry out anti-Qing activities. He organized nursing homes, raised weapons, established peasant armed forces, and actively prepared to cooperate with the national revolution. In March of three years (19 1 1), there was another riot in Wuwei Gelaohui led by Qi. Due to poor preparation and weak strength, the riot was quickly suppressed by Chang Geng, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. Qi Luzhen prepared to go to Tibet under the cover of villagers, but was betrayed by her younger brother Qi Zhenhai and was arrested and imprisoned. In the same year 10, Wuchang Uprising broke out and the revolutionary trend swept the country. When the people of Qi heard about it, they planned an uprising in prison. Because of the secret order of the uprising, the chicken feather leaflet was bought by Wang Mai, the magistrate of Liangzhou, and the uprising leaked the abortion. 10 15 At 3 am, Qi, the leader of the peasant uprising, was killed by the authorities at the Great Cross in Wuwei at the age of 43.

The deeds of Qi and others are widely circulated among the people in Wuwei, compiled into stories, and sung everywhere in Liangzhou aria, which is still enduring.