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Ji Kang
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Chinese writer, poet, philosopher, musician and alchemist (223–262)
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- Da ge ming yi lai Shanghai gong ren jie ji wei zheng qu tong yi tuan jie er dou zheng zhong de mou xie qing kuang
- Philosophy and argumentation in third-century China
- You chou he
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Ji Kang (Chinese: 嵇康; 223–262), also known as Xi Kang, was a Chinese author, poet, Taoist philosopher, musician and alchemist. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove who engaged in separating themselves from the dangerous political situation of third century China in favor of devoting themselves to a life of art and leisure. Ji Kang is noted as an author and famous for having been a composer and qin player. As a thinker, Ji Kang wrote on longevity, music theory, politics and ethics.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,676x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,984x
- PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet
· 2000 · cited 12,100x
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Key facts
- Monarch
- Cao Mao / Cao Huan
- Born
- between 223 and 225, Suixi County , Anhui
- Died
- between 262 and 264 (aged 39), Luoyang , Henan
- Spouse
- Cao Lin 's daughter
- Relations
- Ji Xi (brother)
- Children
- Ji Shao
- Parent
- Ji Zhao (father)
- Occupation
- Composer, essayist, philosopher, poet
- Courtesy name
- Shuye (叔夜)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ji Kang (Chinese: 嵇康, c.224–c.263), sometimes referred to as Xi Kang, courtesy name Shuye (叔夜), was a Chinese composer, essayist, philosopher, and poet of the Three Kingdoms period. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove who held aloof from the dangerous politics of third-century China to devote themselves to art and refinement.
Ji Kang is noted as an author and was also a famous composer and guqin-player. He was described as a handsome and tall man (approximately 1.88 metres). Ji Kang had a boyfriend, Ruan Ji, who was also part of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. Both Ji and Ruan were skilled whistlers, developing a talent in transcendental whistling.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ji Kang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.