Shi Kuang, a Chinese character, was a court musician of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. He is known as the "music saint" in ancient China, and he is the earliest great musician recorded in history books. Shi Kuang is blind and often calls himself a "priest" or a "blind priest". Huai Nan Zi said, "It was a massacre", he "ruled the State of Jin" and the State of Jin "had no chaotic politics". Shi Kuang has made remarkable achievements in art. Zhuangzi's Theory of Everything says that Shi Kuang "knows the melody very well", and Hongtong County Records says: "Shi Kuang is the cleverest in the world."

Representative works: Chun Xue and Xuan Mo.

Li Yannian, a musician in the Western Han Dynasty, was good at singing and dancing and proficient in music creation. He comes from a family of music and dance.

"There are beautiful people in the north, beautiful and independent, caring about the city and then caring about the country. I'd rather not know the whole city and country, and it's hard to get another beauty. " Li Yannian helped his sister, later Li Furen, get the love of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Because he was good at melody, he was named "captain of Xielv" and was responsible for managing the musical instruments in the palace, which won the favor of Emperor Wu. Li Yannian had a profound influence on the melody lyrics of later generations. Regardless of ethics, his music works are all for the rule of feudal dynasties. Culturally, his masterpiece Song of Beauty plays a pioneering role in five-character poems.

Masterpiece: Song of Beauty

Ji Kang, a famous thinker, musician, writer and spiritual leader of "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" in the Cao and Wei Dynasties of the Three Kingdoms, advocated "let nature take its course, teach more" and "judge the noble and the humble and be reasonable". Ji Kang is also good at writing, and his works are mainly poems with distinctive styles. He pays attention to health care and once wrote On Health Care. From generation to generation. His works reflect the thoughts of the times and bring a lot of enlightenment to the later ideological and literary circles.

Representative works: Fu Qin, On Sound Without Sorrow, Guangling San, Wind Into the Pine.