The representative figures of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Xiang Xiu, Liu Ling, Yan Xian, Shan Tao, and Wang Rong. They were known as the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and were the spiritual leaders of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Ji Kang was the representative of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. He was handsome and charismatic, and was praised by others as " just like a lone pine tree standing alone, drunk like a collapsing jade mountain." The other representatives included Ruan Ji, Xiang Xiu, Liu Ling, Yan Xian, Shan Tao, and Wang Rong. They often drank, played, sang, played chess, and chatted in the bamboo forest in Shanyin, showing their transcendence and elegance. These people played an important role in the development of culture and ideology in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
The representative figures of metaphysics in the Wei and Jin Dynasties were the philosophers Wang Bi, Guo Xiang, Xie Lingyun, Jiang Yan, and others. They advocated the idea of taking Tao as the body and virtue as the use to govern nature by doing nothing. They advocated getting rid of the cumbersome shackles of etiquette and Confucian classics to pursue inner freedom and transcendence. In terms of representative works, the representative works of Wei and Jin metaphysics included Tao Te Ching and Zhouyi. Among them, Tao Te Ching was one of the Taoist classics and was hailed as a treasure of ancient Chinese philosophy. The Book of Changes was an important part of traditional Chinese divination culture and one of the important theoretical sources of metaphysics in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
The representative painters of the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties were Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanxuan, Zhang Sengyao, Cao Zhongda, and so on.
The representative figures of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Xiang Xiu, Liu Ling, Jue Xian, Shan Tao, and Wang Rong. They were known as the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. They drank, played, sang, played chess, and chatted in the bamboo forest in Shanyin, showing their transcendence and elegance. Ji Kang was the representative of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. He was described as " the most handsome man in the Wei and Jin Dynasties." He was seven feet eight inches tall, which was equivalent to about 1.9 meters in today's age. Not only was he good-looking, but he was also very talented. He was good at cursive calligraphy, fencing, and his zither poetry was even more outstanding. The other Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove also had their own characteristics. Their words, deeds, and activities had a profound impact on later generations, and they were regarded as representatives of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
The representative figures of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Shan Tao, Liu Ling, Yan Xian, Xiang Xiu, and Wang Rong.
The Wei-Jin demeanor referred to the cultural phenomena of the Wei-Jin period, which were mainly featured by the pursuit of personality, freedom, and nature, as well as the emphasis on moral and philosophical thinking. His representative works included "Shi Shuo Xin Yu,""Romance of the Three Kingdoms,""Dream of the Red Chamber" and other literary works.
There were two types of novels in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which were the supernatural novels and the human novels. The supernatural novels mainly recorded the stories of immortals and ghosts. The representative work was the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Gan Bao's "Search for Gods." On the other hand, novels about people recorded the words and deeds of the characters. The representative work was Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu of the Southern Dynasty.
The representative novel of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was Shi Shuo Xin Yu.
The representative painters of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were Cao Buxing, Wei Xie, Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwen, Zhang Sengyao, Xiao Yi, Cao Zhongda, Yang Zhihua, etc. Among them, Gu Kaizhi was one of the most important painters of this period. He was good at painting figures and was known as the earliest representative painter of scroll figure painting in China.
The painters of the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties included Cao Buxing, Wei Xie, Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwen, and Zhang Sengyao. Among them, Cao Buxing was good at painting figures and Buddha statues, and was called the ancestor of Buddhist painting. Wei Xie mainly created works with figures, stories, and Taoist subjects. Gu Kaizhi was one of the greatest painters at that time, and was good at painting figures, Buddha statues, animals, and mountains and rivers. His representative works included the Painting of Admonitions to Female History, the Painting of Ode to Luo God, and the Painting of Benevolence and Wisdom of Women. Lu Tankan and Zhang Sengyao were also famous painters at that time. The works of the other painters had been lost, and only some historical records were left.
The representative works of the artists of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties included Gu Kaizhi's "Ode to the Goddess of Luo" and "Admonitions to Female History", as well as Cao Buxing's Buddha paintings.