The Celebrities Of Wei And Jin's Ideas Of Body And Mind.

The Metaphysics of Wei and Jin was a academic trend which was based on the three books, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Zhouyi, and which fused the Taoism and Confucianism as it's purport, explored the Ontology, Wu and the profound spiritual realm. The Metaphysics made a big contribution to settle the soul and became the thought basis of Wei-Jin style. But researching the ideas of body and mind as the basis of Wei-Jin style so far was not enough. There was not a systematic research on the ideas of body and mind of Wei-Jin Celebrities, and was short of the deep research on the causal relation between the idea of body and mind and Wei-Jin style.The Metaphysics of Wei-Jin was constructed on the starting point of the individual body and mind, so it contained abundant ideas of body and mind itself. To research the ideas of body and mind of Wei-Jin Celebrities would deepen the comprehension to the ancient Chinese philosophy of life, meanwhile it could research deeply the idle talk, the Wei-Jin style and the self-awareness of art in the Wei-jin period. The body and mind had abundant connotation. The body has the basic meaning of the human body and life, in addition, it was often used instead of"I", which was accordant with the idea of self-esteems in Wei-jin period. The mind had abundant connotation in thought history, containing the meaning of nature, emotion, consciousness, cognizance, thought, aim, and so on, mean while it was similar with"Wu".The Metaphysics of Wei and Jin was the life philosophy which respected and cherished the individual body and mind and worked out the life meaning. Its ideas of body and mind formed progressively on the basis of fusing the Taoism and Confucianism from the inner logic of cultural evolution. In Confucian thought, someone had the perfect life because the benevolence permeated step by step the body and mind. Differently to Confucianism, Taoism proposed to return the existence of body itself by prompting the soul and clearing the anti-affective camouflage of rite. From the external condition of cultural evolution, the establishment of the ideas of body and mind of Wei-Jin Celebrities was relative closely with the social instability and the coercion. Wei-Jin Celebrities was standing a very difficult station and their life was often in danger because of the frequent war, pestilence and coercion. The Celebrities withdrew gradually from society and politics and lived in solitude. their interests turned to the individual life , and they pursued the delightedness of body and mind. The delightedness of individual life became the Celebrities'self-conscious pursuit. It demonstrated the arousal of the Celebrities'subjective personality.The nature which was relative to the Tao was the metaphysical reason and theoretic base point of the Celebrities'ideas of body and mind. It was the basic connotation of Celebrities'ideas of body and mind that the body and the mind arrived concordant condition. The Celebrities explained the difficulty of human exist and the pursuit of life with that the body and mind was separated or combined.As soaring the main body self-awareness, the Celebrities took cherishing body as the basic attitude to the self body and took the emotional life as the core of life meaning. Forgeting the body and experiencing the"Wu"were the basic method to pursue the spirit transcendence for the Celebrities. The Celebrities'ideas of body and mind emphasized the true, the good and the beautiful and laid stress on the comfort of body and freedom of spirit. The frank expression of Celebrities in life formed the Wei-Jin Celebrities'style. The basic connotation of Celebrities'style was the arousal of human and self-awareness of art. The innate character of Celebrities'style was the mental outlook when the scholars opposed the separation of body and mind and pursued the accordance of body and mind.The pursuing accordance of body and mind in the poem and essay of scholars, like Tao Yuanming, explained the Celebrities'ideas of body and mind, thereby explained more the inner relevance between the Celebrities'style and the Celebrities'ideas of body and mind.On the basis of pursuing accordance of body and mind, the Celebrities achieved the systematic accordance of the soul, the society and the universe by loving individual body to every body and by the careless practice, then they would get the real peace of the individual life. So, the representatives of Wei-Jin style, like Wang Bi, Ji Kan, Ruan Ji, Tao Yuanming, and so on, became the cultural symbol of personality spirit of Chinese literati and officialdom class. The basic connotation of this cultural symbol were anti-moral , unconventional, forthright, lenient, free, lofty, insipid and elegant and influenced deeply the form of Neo-Confucianism and the development of Chinese literature and art.