Ji Kang (224-263), a savage of Shu, Han nationality, was born in Luoxian County (now Suixi, Anhui Province). At the end of the official period, Ji Kang advocated a new style of metaphysics with Ruan Ji and other bamboo forest celebrities, and advocated "changing the name of teaching by reason" and "judging the noble and humble and knowing things" (explaining private affairs), and became one of the spiritual leaders of the "seven sages of bamboo forest".

Anecdotal allusions

Ji Kang returned to nature, detached from things, not bound by the secular, and attached importance to friendship. Ji Kang likes to strike while the iron is hot. The iron shop is under a leafy willow tree in the back garden. He attracted a mountain spring and built a small swimming pool around the willows. Tired of striking while the iron is hot, he jumped into the pool and soaked for a while.

The people I met either praised him for his "quiet and refreshing movements" or praised him for his "looseness, lofty and attractive". While the iron is hot, he shows "being far away from the crowd" and contempt for the world, which is the embodiment of his spiritual characteristics.