As we all know, there were many famous people in the Wei and Jin dynasties, such as the famous Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. At that time, people advocated metaphysics, often talked about it, and did not speak righteously. The so-called "Han Jing studies, Wei Qing Talk" is also. There were several reasons for the many scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties: the strict administration of the regime, the change of the system of electing officials, and the values at the ideological level.
The Wei and Jin dynasties changed power, and the literati did not dare to talk about state affairs
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were frequent regime changes, with Cao Wei going to the Western Jin Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the Five Hu Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern Dynasty. Frequent regime changes involved new dynasties trying to cover up their own transgressions, often practicing harsh rule.
In the process of Sima Shi's replacement of Cao Wei, Sima Shi controlled the world's famous scholars, and those who did not submit to Sima Shi like Ji Kang were obliterated.
In this situation of strict control, let the literati try to stay away from the government, just as after the disaster of the late Han Dynasty, the literati broke away from the imperial court, and the celebrities of the Wei and Jin dynasties gradually sent love to the landscape.
Ji kang
Because of the need to be on guard against the fate of Kong Rong and Ji Kang, Wei Jin Mingshi talked more. The so-called clean talks are mostly "nothing to say" and do not involve specific state affairs, so as not to be feared by those in power at that time.
The strength of the Nine Pins Zhongzheng System and the Gate Valve Clan
In fact, Wei Jin celebrities also have to look at their origins, if they are not born into famous people, it is difficult to integrate into the circle of celebrities. The reason for this situation has a lot to do with the system of electing officials implemented by Wei jin, the nine-pin Zhongzheng system.
The development of the Nine Pins Zhongzheng system in the later period has become a tool for the children of the Gate Valve Clan, resulting in a situation in which the children of the Shi Clan do more clean officials, do not do practical things in office, and only travel the mountains and rivers, talk about drinking. And this group of people is the main body of wei and Jin celebrities.
Xiang Xiu
After the disaster of the party at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the scribe group gradually broke away from the center and began to turn its energy to its own family inheritance. Efforts in homeschooling and improving the status of door valves have made the scribe group a door valve force that played an important role after Wei and Jin. The combination of the Door Valve Clan and the Imperial Power was strengthened, and the influence of the Door Valve Clan increased, so that the disciples of the Door Valve clan became the wild and uninhibited celebrities.
A shift in thinking, a reflection on values
Thinking at the philosophical level, only from a few representative celebrities of Wei and Jin, we can spy on the phenomenon of many scholars in Wei and Jin at that time.
He Yan, Wang Bi, Ji Kang, Xiang Xiu and others thought and changed their values and became representatives of the development of the ideological level in the Wei and Jin dynasties.
For the values under the previous Confucian thought, to interpret Lao Zhuang, it triggered inner thinking and ideological transformation, which became the mainstream of thought in the Wei and Jin dynasties.
The inner reflections developed during the Wei and Jin dynasties, as well as the appreciation of the landscape itself, are all manifestations of the difference between the thoughts of the famous scholars in the Wei and Jin dynasties from the past.
The special historical period with frequent regime changes created a special living situation for the literati at that time, so that it triggered inner thinking about thought and value, thus achieving the situation of many scholars in the Wei and Jin dynasties.
All in all, for the Wei and Jin Dynasties, although the times were chaotic, the reasons for the many scholars were inseparable from the chaos of the political situation at that time, the situation of the literati and the changes in the hearts of the literati.