The works in Jian 'an period truly reflect the real turmoil and people's suffering, and express the ideal of making contributions and the spirit of being proactive. At the same time, it also reveals the bitterness that life is short and ambition is hard to pay. Its artistic conception is grand, its writing style is distinct, and it has distinct characteristics and personality of the times. Its vigorous, deep, generous and sad artistic style is called "Jian 'an Style" or "Wei-Jin Style" in the history of literature.
Jian 'an Bone refers to the poetry creation during the Jian 'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (193-220). The poems written by Cao Cao and his son, RoyceWong and other "seven sons of Jian 'an" are rich in content, simple in language and vigorous and handsome in style, and later called "Jian 'an Style".
The expansion of information during Jian 'an period created a new situation. We accept the spirit of the times and aesthetic fashion embodied by Wei and Jin demeanor, but we don't think that Wei and Jin demeanor is the product of positive factors of the times. On the contrary, its appearance was an abnormal reaction to the social situation in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Zong Baihua affirmed the fashion of Jin people from an aesthetic point of view. "The beauty of golden people is the highest peak of this whole era", which may be exaggerated. He believes that the beauty of Jin people lies in "discovering nature externally and deep feelings internally", which is attributed to the fact that Jin people got rid of the shackles of etiquette and law under the rule of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, and in Zong Baihua's words, they got rid of the hypocritical morality named "hometown".
"Wei Jin people donated wild money in order to resist the local society, resist the ethics and vulgarity of Huan Orange and the literati class, and dig out the true meaning and morality of life from their true temperament and true blood.
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