Looking up at the starry sky in the abyss: the humility and pride of the famous people of the Wei and Jin dynasties
This book is a short biography of famous scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties, starting from Kong Rong, the last
writer with the legacy of "party people", and ending with Xie An Xie Shi, the last romantic figure in the Taiyuan period of Emperor Wu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
From the generous and sad seven sons of Jian'an, to the wise but desolate Zhengshi celebrities during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, from the seven sages of the bamboo forest who were dissolute and uninhibited but fell into the dust, to the five Hu into the Central Plains, the Chinese and Korean celebrities who were dangerous and frivolous in the chaos of the world, and then to the Taiyuan celebrities who raised their tails lightly with one hand and whipped the north finger with the other hand after the Jin Dynasty crossed to the south.
They are politicians, philosophers, writers, and poets, and among them there are many who are beautiful in nature, many in spirit, many in good manners, and many in snake spirits.
They have finally broken away from the altar of moral models, and have become lively individuals worthy of respect and admiration, but cannot be replicated, and have become the most unique aesthetic specimens in the history of Chinese culture.
This book is not pretentious or pretentious, and takes us to relive the romance and style of the Wei and Jin dynasties.