Starting from the demeanor of Wei and Jin Dynasties, the scholar-bureaucrat spirit of complementary Confucianism and Taoism fundamentally laid the personality foundation of China intellectuals.
Nowadays, young people's self-discovery and affirmation, as a love of life, is in the same strain as the values of Wei and Jin demeanor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Nowadays, young people pursue beautiful and elegant personality, which complements the aesthetics in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
What can be discarded is:
At that time, people followed the fashion and didn't feel as heavy as Ji Kang and Ruan Ji, but they also learned from them.
Wei-Jin demeanor refers to the behavior style of celebrities in Wei-Jin period, which is straightforward and frank. Drinking, taking medicine, talking freely and indulging in landscapes are the lifestyles generally advocated by celebrities in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Wei and Jin Dynasties were a turbulent era and an active one. The social survival situation of the emerging gentry class is extremely sinister, and at the same time, its character, thought and behavior are extremely confident, romantic and chic, and it is not rigidly bound to things and informal. Scholars are independent and special, and like elegant collections. It is in this era that the literati created the benchmark of literati calligraphy that influenced later generations and dedicated an exemplary and admirable calligrapher.