Literati gathering was an important leisure cultural phenomenon in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.There were many famous collections in this period,such as Yexia Xiyuan gathering,Zhulin gathering,Jingu gathering and Lanting gathering.Elegant gathering is a comprehensive product of the scholars’ internal and external exploration in the face of life anxiety in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.It has an important relationship with the trend of valuing emotion,life liberation and leisure in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.The development of the elegant gathering shows the unique leisure aesthetic consciousness of the literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties,which is mainly reflected in the following three aspects: first,the sense of time.The literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties consciously set up the elegant gathering activities in the beautiful days and festivals;Second,the space consciousness,the literati of Wei and Jin dynasties attached great importance to the natural realm of the elegant gathering environment;The third is the spirit of play.As the main body of leisure,the literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties often have a kind of leisure psychology of game entertainment.The literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties presented a superb leisure aesthetic realm through the elegant gathering activities,which was mainly reflected in the following three aspects: first,life was artistic,and the literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to observe and enjoy life from an artistic and aesthetic perspective;Secondly,the scholars of Wei and Jin Dynasties found a balance between going out and going out,going in and going out,showing and hiding;The third is the music of inner spiritual transcendence.The literati of Wei and Jin Dynasties achieved the aesthetic interest of spiritual transcendence in the music of all kinds of sounds,colors,ears and eyes.The historical influence of the elegant collection of literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties is multi-level and multi-faceted: first,the elegant collection of literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties established a fixed and patterned type of aesthetic practice for the later literati,and the later literati competed to follow this elegant paradigm,thus forming a specific aesthetic taste;Secondly,the elegant collection of literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties made the creation and appreciation of literary and artistic works at that time and even later generations infected with the artistic characteristics of leisure.Whether it is the emergence of reward and stylistic poetry,the development of landscape literary works,or the prevalence of the concept of literary entertainment,its basic characteristic is leisure;Finally,from the perspective of morality and ethics,the elegant collection of literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties emphasized the high integration of "leisure" and "elegance",which established a basic value standard and code of conduct for the leisure of literati in later generations. |