Combined with Shishuoxinyu, let’s talk about what is the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties

Wei and Jin style refers to the forthright, straightforward, handsome and elegant behavioral style of celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Drinking, taking medicine, talking and indulging in landscapes were the lifestyles generally advocated by celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. A "Shishuoxinyu" can be said to be a concentrated record of the demeanor of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

The Wei and Jin Dynasties were a turbulent era and an era of active thinking. The social survival situation of the emerging elite scholar class is extremely dangerous. At the same time, their personality, thoughts and behavior are extremely confident, elegant, unrestrained, not attached to things, and informal. Most of the scholars were independent and idiosyncratic, and they also liked to gather elegantly. It was during this era that scholars created benchmarks for literati calligraphy that influenced later generations, and dedicated the exemplary and admirable calligraphy saints, the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove", namely Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Shan Tao, Liu Ling, Ruan Xian, and Xiang Xiu. Wang Rong and Wang Rong were informal in their daily lives. They often gathered in the forest to drink and sing. They were quiet and inactive, free and easy. The "Wei and Jin style" they represented was appreciated by many intellectuals later.