Abstract:
Under Emperor of Wu in the Liang Dynasty’s policy of administrating the country by developing culture and giving preferential treatment to scholars, the scholars in the reign generally took the recluse’s way of life. On the one hand, gardens as places of seclusion gained important development both practically and theoretically, and the relationship between the rulers and social sages was further unified. On the other, different from the Jin and Song Dynasties, the corpus of the Liang Dynasty’s culture changed from scholars to imperial families. In face of Emperor of Wu’s pretentious attention to developing culture but actual jealousy of scholars, most scholars appeared to be weak and pretentious in life. In this sense, physical, psychological and cultural weakness was characteristic of both imperial families and common scholars. As a result, literature in the dynasty primarily represented the tired scholar and pretentious imperial family, and lack of original ideals and flourishing in artistic skills formed the two poles of aesthetics in the Liang Dynasty.
