Wu Cheng'en
Despite his military accomplishments, Ding was best known as a scholar of the Classics. His "Shang shu yu lun" made the case for the forgery of the "Shu ching", and he made many key arguments in favour of Wu Cheng'en being the original author of the Buddhist classic "Journey to the West". He authored over fifty books on scholarly subjects, and was the director of two literary academies. Many of his works were compiled and published in 1862 as the "Yi zhi zhai cong shu" (Collected works of Yizhizhai Studio).