When calligraphy in the Jin Dynasty was at its peak, it was mainly reflected in running script, which is a font between cursive script and regular script. His representative works are "Three Hopes", namely "Bo Yuan Tie", "Quick Snow and Shi Qing Tie" and "Mid-Autumn Tie".
The literature of the two Jin Dynasties broke away from the shackles of Confucian classics and became independent, moving towards free and diversified development. This is because: in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Confucian spirit was declining, talent was more important than virtue, and the scholar-bureaucrats were nihilistic and absurd; the politics were dark, and the scholar-bureaucrats were suppressed; Mysterious Buddhism and Taoism were prevalent, and the translation of scriptures was developed. Against these backgrounds, the works of this period were realistic in content and focused on technique. Influenced by Han Fu, parallel prose appeared, with four to six characters. It focused on gorgeous rhetoric, carved words, and rhymes. It often used parallels and allusions. The main articles included poems, essays, and slips. It reached its peak in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Sheng. Parallel prose brought about the study of phonology, and later the four tones were agreed upon by Shen of Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. In terms of novels, such as Zhang Hua's "Natural History", Qian Bao's "Sou Shen Ji" and Ge Hong's "The Legend of Immortals". Most of the history books of this period were folk works, or there were multiple versions, such as Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" and Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han".
At the turn of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Ji Ruan's articles were very good, but He Yan's disciples were mostly superficial. Ji Kang is good at four-character poems and is also the author of "On Health Preservation". His poetic style is clear and solemn, he opposes political darkness, and refuses to compromise with the Sima regime. His representative works include "Book of Severing Diplomacy with Shan Tao", "Giving Scholars to Enter the Army", nineteen poems and "Poetry of Indignation". Ruan Ji expressed his disgust at the harm of power and the darkness of politics in "Ode to Shouyang Mountain" and "Poetry of Ode to Huai".
During the Western Jin Dynasty, society was prosperous and luxurious, and literature became more refined and beautified. Most of the works of this period are elegant and smooth, with moderate complexity and simplicity. The famous one is Zuo Si's "Ode to the Three Capitals", which describes the capitals of the Three Kingdoms. The content is powerful and powerful, and it caused a sensation in the capital after it was completed. His poems are very superb in art and style. He was ostracized because he was not from a famous family, and his poems show regret. Pan Yue's "Mournary Poems" are delicate in content and realistic in emotion. Lu Ji's "Wen Fu" is an important literary theory that describes the master-slave relationship between thought and art. His prose is also well known, but it places too much emphasis on rhetoric and parallelism. The poetry of the Western Jin Dynasty was influenced by the "Jian'an style" of Cao Wei, but gradually paid attention to parallelism and rhyme. Famous poets include Zhang Zai, Zhang Xie, Zhang Yuan, Lu Ji, Lu Yun, Pan Yue, Pan Ni, and Zuo Si[28].
After the Yongjia Disaster, Liu Kun's poems appeared with the characteristics of grief for the country's subjugation and perseverance, which was a rare style in the two Jin Dynasties. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi's "Book of Letters to Xie An" was famous for its superb style and other articles such as slips. Among them, the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" mentions the lament that life is accompanied by joy and sorrow, which is quite representative of the values ????of the scholar-bureaucrats at that time. Xuanyan poems are the most popular, mostly related to the content of plain talk, such as Sun Chuo's "You Tiantai Fu" and Guo Pu's "Jiang Fu". Guo Pushang annotated "Erya", "Shan Hai Jing" and "The Biography of Emperor Mu", etc. His "Poetry on Immortals" is the representative of the literature on immortals in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, with a unique poetic style. The content of the poem describes the sense of leisurely travel away from the world, which is actually a reflection of dissatisfaction with reality. In the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tao Yuanming was particularly distinctive. He was good at describing pastoral life, with a fresh and simple style, which enhanced the connotation of ancient poetry and showed lofty and pure sentiments. His work "Peach Blossom Spring" implies the pursuit of a harmonious world that can escape from troubled times, and is full of philosophy. His poetry, prose and poetry have widely influenced later famous writers such as Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi, Xin Qiji, Lu You and others.
In addition, the background of the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, one of the four famous Chinese folklores, also took place in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.