"Xiang Xiu: The Legacy of the Bamboo Grove" is a biographical literary work based on the metaphysical trends of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It focuses on Xiang Xiu (approximately 227-272), who has the most philosophical depth among the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove". Through the triple structure of "wrought iron - Zhuangzhuang - Fujiu", the book shows how this thinker, caught between Ji Kang's heroism and Guo Xiang's system, transformed the pain of losing friends into philosophical creation. The work begins with the young boy Zhuangzi writing by the Yellow River, and goes through the physical practice of forging iron under the willow tree, the spiritual nirvana of witnessing the execution ground, and the survival wisdom of Qujie Luoyang. Finally, in the obscure brushwork of "Si Jiu Fu" and the metaphysical breakthrough of "Zhuangzi Zhuangzi", it completes the alternative inheritance of the character of the bamboo forest. The book reconstructs the prototype of Xiang Xiu's theory of advocating "all things arise and evolve by themselves" and his ideological process of resolving the predicament of the times by "following the teachings of fame and letting nature", and reveals his originality obscured by Guo Xiang's annotations. Finally, through the symbolic ending of the soul returning to the bamboo forest, it shows the whole process of how the scholars of Wei and Jin Dynasties used philosophy and literature to protect their spiritual fire under political pressure.
