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This book is an academic essay by teacher Liu Chengji. The whole book uses time as the axis to run through the author's insights and thoughts on aesthetics, life, and many ordinary events in life. The writing is fresh, the emotions are sincere, the language is humorous, the meaning is profound, the ingenuity and clever writing are repeated, and it is highly readable. From it, we can see the wisdom and knowledge of a middle-aged scholar, and we can also feel the beauty that a person similar to us has in every detail of his life.

For a long time, the Han Dynasty has been a weak link in the study of Chinese aesthetic history. This book uses the body as the entry point to reconstruct the understanding of Han Dynasty aesthetics. The author believes that the cognition of the body in the aesthetics of the Han Dynasty is divided into five levels, namely establishing the philosophical foundation for body cognition with the theory of vitality and nature, defining the essential composition of the body with the theory of form, spirit and bone, constructing the relationship between the body and the world with the theory of symmetry between heaven and man, recreating the social nature of the body with rituals, music and clothing, and expressing expectations for the immortality of the body with health preservation and lavish burial. With this as a background, this book further explores the contribution of the Han Dynasty's body concept to the aesthetics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It believes that the theory of literary spirit in Wei and Jin literature, the theory of form and spirit in painting, and the theory of muscles and bones in calligraphy are all extensions of the body theory of the previous dynasties to the field of art; the Han Dynasty's examination system is the historical motivation for the formation of the style of Wei and Jin people.