Xi Kang – worthiest worthy of the bamboo grove?
Xi Kang – Worthiest Worthy of the Bamboo Grove?
The more I learn about Ji Kang (one of the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove), the more intriguing he becomes. His father died in his youth, but he rose to prominent posts in government and married into the ruling family. He shared his friend Ruan Ji’s distaste for the court and it seems that he really took to heart Zhuangzi’s rejection of division within society. Ji Kang disengaged from the court and joined his friends in the bamboo grove near his home.
But where Ruan Ji managed […]
Seven Worthies launched
The Seven Worthies goes live
The Seven Worthies site has gone live! We start with just the seven worthies themselves – the group of scholars and officials from the third century AD who assembled in a bamboo grove to discourse on philosophy away from the pressures of court life.
I hope that this list of seven, which gives the site its name and is the inspiration behind it will soon be joined by many more of the exciting-sounding lists from Chinese philosophy and historiography – the eight immortals, the three kingdoms, the four treasures. There’s still […]
