Discussing "Demeanor Of Wei And Jin Ynasties" And A New Account Of Tales Of The World

Although it is only three hundred years from the end of Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of Liu Song Dynasty, There were frequent chaos caused by wars and change of dynasty. Many significant changes had taken place in economy, politics and culture field. "Demeanor of Wei and Jin Dynasties" was formed in those particular times. It contained the demeanor of awaken, liberated scholar, woman and children. They sought freedom of individual character, independent character value and dignity, reconsidered, discovered and grasped the meaning of life. They treated life with a natural, genuine, unconventionally graceful and unrestrained way, through which they resisted false feudal ethics. All of them were reflected in their thought, artistic talent, manner and medicine, alcoholic beverage, article, metaphor and landscape etc. A New Account of Tales of the World, written by Liu Yiqing who lived in Southern-Song Dynasty, was a novel of human, which mainly recorded the speech fashion of the scholar class and strange news and an extraordinary affair of the end of Han dynasty, Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasty. Though it was a novel, A New Account of Tales of the World had distinct historical data value and factuality, which can be confirmed from the literary style, annotating character or the classification and content. As a result, A New Account of Tales of the World can record and reflect "Demeanor of Wei and Jin Dynasties" authentically and systematically.