Neo-Taoism: Hsi K

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Neo-TaoismHsi Kang (223-262) Juan Chi
(210-263)
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• (Source The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 1
  The Chin and Han Empires, 221 B.C. --- A.D. 220,
  p. 833)

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• HsiKang (the rich Wei aristocrat who married to
  a great-granddaughter of Tsao Tsao) gathered
  around him a group of intellectuals later known
  as the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. Robert
  G. Henricks, Philosophy and Argumentation in
  Third Century China The Essays of Hsi Kang.
  New Jersey Princeton U. Press, 1983

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• This sort of club included practicing believers
  in Taoist religion, which is sometimes called
  neo-Taoism. Some of these men cultivated the
  techniques of longevity, as for example Hsi Kang
  himself, while for others, Taoist libertarianism
  turned to libertinism and wu to nihilism.

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• The latter gave themselves up to drink, drugs,
  and --- most scandalizing of all to the Confucian
  puritans --- nudism, see Fung Yu-lan, History of
  Chinese Philosophy, Vol. II, p. 190 Erik
  Zurcher, Buddhist Conquest of China, p.79 Etiene
  Balazs, Nihilistic Revolt or Mystical Escapism,
  pp. 236f. justifying these eccentricities by
  referring to Chuang Tzus naturism.