| This thesis takes Cai Yong's literature activity as the object of research. The main part of it includes four chapters.The first chapter deals with the relationship between Cai Yong and the literary circles in the Eastern Han period: his encouragement and recommendation to the outstanding scholars and his admiration and approval to the outstanding books and literary works. Outstanding people once recommended by Cai Yong, such as Bian Rang and Wang Can were full of literary talent and personality, they embodied the new literary mode. In this aspect, Cai Yong had amazing similarities with Kong Rong. But all of them eventually got tragic fates, whether Cai Yong and Kong Rong themselves, or Bian Rang and Mi Heng they recommended. Cai Yong's appreciation of Wang Can, manifested the complete differences from the traditional Confucian scholars in value orientation, vision and mind. The books he gave Wang Can became the spiritual food to Wang Bi, the important person of metaphysics in Wei-Jin Period. Cai Yong appreciated the works of Wang Yanshou, Wang Chong, and Zhao Ye in the middle of Han Dynasty. Their works reflected the literary trends of peculiarity-seeking, and the characteristics of literary reform. They heralded the Wei-Jin literature. Cai Yong sang high praise for the Zhenti, which was preferred by his contemporaries. The reason was that this literary work didn't chime in with others, it had the independent quality and style. It mirrored the personality of its author. Cai Yong 's encouragement and recommendation to the outstanding scholars is consistent with his admiration and approval to the outstanding books and literary works. Usually, the authors of the outstanding books and literary works are just the outstanding scholars in literature.The second chapter compares "The Biography" by Liu Shao with the tablet inscription written by Cai Yong, and points out that they are respectively the theoretical summary and the literary manifestation ofcharacter evaluation. The tablet inscription written by Cai Yong and the character evaluation in Wei-Jin Period share the same aesthetic orientation, they can be traced to the same origin. Both Cai Yong and Liu Shao fully affirmed the good nature of human being and paid their attention to the natural gift of human being. This is also the important proposition of metaphysics in Wei-Jin Period. They have both similarities and differences only when tracing the origin of the nature gift. As for the manifestation of the nature gift, one paid attention to the tone, the eyesight, and the other paid attention to the skeleton and facial features. Liu Shao and Cai Yong both admired the beauty of wisdom and enlightenment. Cai Yong especially admired the precocious children. For the question of "the relationship between wisdom and cleverness", both of them gave their answers. In promoting this question, they have differences in the intimacy and estrangement to Rite. Liu Shao explained cleverness and wisdom with the traditional philosophy, while Cai Yong explained them with the concrete things. Both Cai Yong and Liu Shao fully affirmed people's beauty of Mean. But emphasized the elegance and having more other virtues. They took the beauty of elegance and mean equal to the nature of human being. It is greatly different from the Confucian philosophy in Pre-Qin period. Liu Shao and Cai Yong attached importance to people's having many virtues. Although they seemed to be Contradictory in the expression, they had no basic divergence. The difference is the angles of their position.The third chapter discusses the literature activities of Cai Yong, as a writer and a musician. Cai Yong had a deep relationship with Qin. This musical instrument brought him honor as well as misfortune and stain. On one hand , Cai Yong relates Qin with the politics, on the other hand, he regarded Qin as a instrument for relaxation. Cai Yong passed down his technique to Ruan Yu, and Ruan Yu to Ruan Ji. Playing Qin became the important part of the Demeanor in Wei-Jinperiod. CaiYong'stechniqu...
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