When it comes to Ji Kang, many people's impression of him is **uninhibited. Everything that went against the "spirit" of the scholar at that time seemed to be related to him;He has an indifferent attitude towards his career, the trend of the court, fame and fortune.
But in fact, these are just our stereotypes about him. Hidden behind these representations is his meticulous logic, delicate mind and unswerving belief.
Ji Kang, the word Uncle Night. When the ancients took "characters" and "names", they all followed certain rules, and "words" often echoed "names".
"Uncle" represents his ranking in the family, Uncle Ji, the third in line. And "Kang" and "night" don't seem to have any connection, in fact, they come from the allusion in the "Book of Songs": "King Cheng doesn't dare to Kang, and the night is based on a secret fate." This sentence originally described that King Zhou Cheng worked day and night and did not dare to slack off and enjoy himself.
However, Ji Kang seems to have lived up to his name. He was born with little love for work, and longed for that kind of free and easy life. It may have something to do with his family. When he was very young, his father died, and in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the early death of a man was a fatal blow to the future of future generations.
When Emperor Wei Wen succeeded to the throne, in order to strengthen the power, he promulgated the "Nine Grades Zhongzheng System". Only those with excellent comprehensive abilities in family background, morality, and talent can serve as the top grade. However, in the last years of Cao Wei, the selection of ** relying on the standard of talent and morality was gradually neglected. To put it bluntly, it was during that period that if you wanted to enter the official career and achieve something, you had to rely on your family background.
Perhaps the life of losing his father in his early years made him know that it was difficult for him to have hope in his career. Although under the care of his elder brother and mother, he was able to read a wide range Xi of books and learn various skills, but he did not delve into the Confucian classics that were useful and beneficial to his career like the children of traditional scholars, but respected the metaphysics that was quite popular among celebrities and scholars at that time, as well as the health regimen of Zhezhuang. He even wrote an article specifically for this purpose, the famous "Theory of Health Preservation", which discussed a point that seems absurd now: as long as people pay attention to health preservation, it is possible to live past a thousand years.
He was born handsome, and it was recorded in "The World Says New Words" that Ji Kang was seven feet eight inches long and had a special demeanor. Shan Gong said: "Uncle Ji is also a man at night, and Yanyan is independent if he is a lone pine;."Its drunkenness is also, and the puppet Russian Jade Mountain will collapse. Ji Kang stood as tall and straight as a pine tree;When drunk, it was as great as if the jade mountain was about to fall. The well-known idiom "the jade mountain will be tilted" is derived from his appearance.