diskusbooks Chapter 579 Wei-Jin Celebrities: Playing it cool and making enemies of the world!
Chapter 579 Wei-Jin Celebrities: Playing it cool and making enemies of the world!
Lin Ke continued: "On the other hand, the famous scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties did indeed exhibit some rather abstract behaviors."
"For example, Liu Ling, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was unwilling to serve the Jin Dynasty of the Sima family. Once, when someone from the court came to summon him, Liu Ling immediately got drunk, then took off his clothes and ran naked towards the village entrance."
Sima family members: ...
"Such things were common even during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Historical records show that applying powder and rouge was a common practice among scholars!"
"Cao Zhi also loved beauty. Once, when a friend came to visit, he made him wait for more than an hour before he appeared."
"It seems that during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was fashionable for aristocratic men to regard femininity as beauty, while women went to the battlefield to fight! He Yan not only loved to wear powder, but also loved to dress in women's clothing, so he can be considered an early cross-dressing master!"
As soon as the words were spoken, people in the Qin and Han dynasties could hardly imagine what the Wei and Jin scholars, who wore makeup and had fair and delicate skin, actually looked like. How could they be good-looking if they were taking drugs and wearing makeup?
"Behind these absurd behaviors lies dissatisfaction with reality. During the Han Dynasty, the country was governed by Confucianism on the outside and rule of law on the inside. At that time, the monarch's power was divinely ordained, and there was loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness among people."
"However, the Sima family made a mess of things, and many scholars were unwilling to serve as officials in the Jin Dynasty. At this juncture, Wei-Jin metaphysics became a trend, and people talked about Laozi, Zhuangzi, the Book of Changes and other ideas."
"On this basis, debates were held one after another, which is called pure conversation. For example, Wang Yan, who came from an aristocratic family and served as prime minister, was a famous pure conversation master."
"Although he held a high position, he did not do his job well for the country, hence the saying that 'empty talk ruins the country'."
"To sum it all up, since the end of the Han Dynasty, one regime after another has emerged. Among the Three Kingdoms, Cao Wei seemed to have a chance to end the chaos, but the Sima family's rise caused great social disorder, which led to this kind of trend."
"This is the so-called Wei-Jin style: indulging in drinking, drugs, and lying down. Unable to change reality, they retreated from the world, refusing to serve in the court or associate with corrupt officials, so they engaged in pure conversation..."
"To be honest, during the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, even dogs wouldn't want to go. Ordinary people had no way to survive, and it was very easy for them to die in the cauldron."
"If this era hadn't been so dark, then the famous scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties wouldn't have had nothing left but to indulge in drinking and drugs, and lie down in bed to oppose the world."
Ying Zheng was thinking about it, while Liu Che felt nauseous. As an emperor, he could accept the demise of a dynasty, but he could not accept hundreds of years of chaos and turmoil!
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao never imagined that his past relocation of people to the interior would have such serious consequences!
Sima Yi! He deserves to die! If he hadn't set a bad precedent, causing the collapse of rites and music and leading to social disorder, how could there have been centuries of turmoil?
We should really think about this; the future course of history shouldn't be like this!
The comments section at this moment:
Zhao Kuangyi, the "Car God" of Gaoliang River: All the mistakes were made by the Sima family, which brought about a great disaster and caused the Shenzhou spacecraft to sink!
A Ming Dynasty official: How can it be that powerful clans and aristocratic families are high and mighty, turning a blind eye to the suffering of the common people? Otherwise, why would the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove have done that?
Zhang Fei: I get angry just looking at the idea that femininity is beautiful!
A minor official in the Qin Dynasty: If the scholars of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were not living a happy life, how could we talk about the ordinary people? Their demands were much simpler: a stable life, enough to eat and wear!
An old farmer from the Han Dynasty said: "When the country prospers, we suffer; when it falls, we suffer. Who did we offend?"
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