The origin of the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest refers to seven people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China. They were originally called "Seven Sages", namely Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Dan Tao, Xiang Xiu, Liu Ling, Wang Rong and Ruan Xian.
During the ten years from AD 240 to AD 249 (Three Kingdoms Wei Chu), they often sang, drank and sang in the bamboo forest at the junction of Shanyang County in Xinxiang City and Xiuwu County in Jiaozuo City, enjoying themselves. Later, people and the place name of bamboo forest were collectively called "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest".
They despise etiquette and are free and easy, which embodies the personality characteristics of real celebrities' self-love.
Ji Kang, the work of the seven sages of bamboo forest, is good at guqin. His works include Fu Qin, No Sorrow and Happiness, Difficult Nature and Learning, Keeping in Good Health, Breaking Up with the Mountain and Gathering Sources, Poems for Giving Scholars to Join the Army, etc.
Ruan Xian: He made the musical instrument of the same name-"Ruan Xian". He was proficient in melody, but left no works in literature.
Liu Ling: The Good Drunken, a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, Ode to Wine Virtue.
Xiang Xiu: After the disintegration of the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest, he wrote "Thinking of the Old".
Ruan Ji: The handed down work Biography of Mr. Adult is similar in style to Liu Ling's Ode to Wine Morality. There are 82 poems about the bosom, including On Dazhuang and Notes on Zheng Chong's Persuading the King of Jin.