Ji Kang's music thought embodies certain idealism. He thinks that the emotion expressed by music has a great relationship with the mood of people who appreciate music. People who know how to appreciate music live a happy life and are happy every day, so what he hears is naturally a cheerful symphony. People who like music frown every day and experience many difficulties and setbacks. The music they hear is naturally sad and painful. Music reflects the truest world in one's heart and reveals the truest feelings in one's heart. The ideas expressed by music have a great relationship with the musician's emotional state. This view belongs to subjective idealism and emphasizes the importance of people.
The Record of Receiving Words is a five-character poem written by Ji Kang during the Three Kingdoms period, and it is also his masterpiece. The whole poem expresses the author's complex and noble moral integrity of hiding in the mountains every day, ignoring the secular world. The first half describes the grand scene of the reception, and the second half shows his extremely happy mood. The whole poem is full of feelings in the mountains and rivers, which sets off a grand scene with the surrounding scenery and shows his attitude towards life far from the secular and natural.
The seven sages of bamboo forest headed by Ji Kang were the representatives of Wei and Jin Dynasties. They never put fame and fortune in their eyes. They cherish their inner real world more. Let's hide our inner feelings between mountains and rivers, paralyze our nerves through alcohol and escape from this complicated world.