周公、孔子被称为圣人,乃因他们不仅是治道的象征,亦为中国古人道德典范的象征。故嵇康『非汤、武而薄周、孔』,为世所不容。但中国古代也称具有某方面专长的能人——即葛洪所说的『众所不及』者——为『圣』。《抱朴子》所载皇象、胡昭是书圣,卫协、张墨是画圣,张衡、马钧是木圣,不一而足。这种『圣』不是独一无二的,比如历史上就有很多人被称为书圣, Zhou Gong and Confucius are called saints because they are not only symbols of governing the country, but also symbols of the ancient Chinese moral model. Therefore, Ji Kang “non-Tang, Wu and thin weeks, hole”, the world can not tolerate. However, in ancient China, people who also had the expertise of a certain area, that is, what GE Hong said was “beyond” as “holy.” “Baopuzi” contains the emperor elephant, Hu Zhao is the book St., Association for Health, Zhang Mexico is the painting of the holy, Zhang Heng, Ma Jun is wood, but full. This “holy” is not unique, such as many people in history have been called book holy,