The Arts: The Life That Was Rescued

Wei, Jin dynasties , in the history of China, was the most heavy but also the most colorful age, the most heartless but also the most passionate age. In such social environment, people had to face the sense of loss that had never faced.The materials that supports the existence suffered the severe damage, the thought system that supports the human mind also be damaged seriously. But exactly in this era, the human spirit world gained the tremendous liberation.The awakening of spirit led to the liberation of human nature. However, when the value system had broken. How the awakening nature to be settle down? How to make the ideal society become true?The self-awareness of arts in Wei Jin dynasties rose from it. This is not only showed as the abundance of artistic practices and the evolution of the artistic idea, but also permeated each aspect of people's daily life. Only in arts, the freedom of the spirit could get the reasonable realization; the mind and body of individual could acquire the belongings; the ideal society could really become true.This text attempts to take a person-Jikang who has the outstanding brilliance as the representative in order to provide the model certificate for this artistic spirit. In the modern researches about the literary history and the arts history in the medieval times, the discussions and the concerns about Jikang's artistic questions were not a new topic. In general, they stayed at the artistic ideas themselves provided by the text, but seldom found the important relations between the artistic ideas and the true circumstance during Wei Jin dynasties. As a result, they can not reveal the profound significance of Jikang's artistic spirit wholly.This text made a careful analysis about Jikang's living conditions and thinking world; finally led to his ingenuous artistic spirit came from era, displayed its meaning for arts and life.The main body of this text was composed by three parts.First ,the text depicted a self-aware image-Jikang and described his ideal from the following four aspects: the rejection to politics; the expression of nature; the soar of thinking and the concrete life .However ,this is a confused era .It is difficult for Jikang to make his dream become true except by arts.Second ,from conflict to rescue. The text choose musical arts as classical...