Through the investigation of the images of sages in the Spring and Autumn Annals, it can be concluded that Ji Zha, Zichang and Guan Zhong in the Spring and Autumn Annals were known as sages because of their talents, wisdom and ability to plot politics for their own country. However, such images of sages display some faults such as lacking flexibility due to overemphasis on fundamental principles, being destructive due to practicality, and acting in separate ways due to the limitations of country and region. The standards of inner communication of virtue and talent, and the unity of saints and sages, enable the later generations to rectify the moral flaws on those sages, and thus, it is necessary to re-examine their identity of sages. For this reason, the guidance of “unifying the virtuous with the holy” and the pursuit of “making the virtuous into the holy” were passed down in the Spring and Autumn Annals and later biographies to provide the ultimate direction for moral ideal and effective guidance for practical political practice.