Seven Sages Of The Bamboo Grove

This dissertation attempts to bring light to the cultural phenomenon which the image of "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" in Wei and Jin dynasties were canonized by the same and follow epoch. It consists of three parts.The first essay holds that the recluse scholars of Han dynasty and the tradition of "purity" made much influence in the social prevailing thought of the Han-Wei period. Which the special form of intervention to politics had a close connection with scholars' moral nature. So Chi Kang and Juan Ji and seven sagas' recluse made them the model of contemporaneity and earned the fame. As a celebrity, Chi Kang was supposed to be the conscience of the society.The existence of Wei-Jin metaphysics' thought trend and a purification clique caused the defeat of Western-Jin as a usurp authority in their ideology. Three factors were mainly for the formation of metaphysical image to seven sagas: the purification stratum advanced to the establishment that made it possible to the retrospection; the public consensus to morality lapsed that leaded to a rakishness in social unrest; The principle of "Giving the Reins to Nature" which Seven Sagas had put forward was advocated by Shan Tao and Wang Rong and some concerned household.The third part tries to analyze each character of Seven Sagas by the study to stories and anecdotes concerned which were recorded in Eastern-Jin and followed. In the same time, literature search about their story has also been done.