Both Wen Qiao and Yu Liang were famous ministers and scholars whose morality,writing,and political activities reflected the unique background of the Eastern Jin timesBoth men played important roles in the whimsical,turbulent Eastern Jin political environment and,at the same time,comprised various political essays to fulfill his contemporary political needsTheir literary contributions were unique in the Eastern Jin and also had an important impact on later generationsAlthough their writings were not the best kinds of poetic or fu rhapsodic works of their time,their special social status made their writings specialThe comments on their works in the Wenxin diaolong,or the Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons,reflects the way of reading a literary work emphasizing the reader's communication with the writer's intent,a way through which the work's literary values are thought to be better revealed

“Meaning”is an important concept and basic category of Chinese philosophy and literature,originated from thinkers in the preQin period. Relevant discussions had appeared in Zhou Yi and Zhuang ZiIn the period of Han,Wei and Six Dynasties,in the field of literary criticism and creation,the category and concept of meaning began to enter the relevant fieldsIn the great classics of literary theory such as Shi Pin and The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons,the concept and category of meaning began to be consciously used to discuss the problems of literary criticism and conceptionAfter the Tang and Song Dynasties,image and artistic conception came into being,but as a metacategory and metaconcept,“meaning”was still widely used and expanded,affecting the construction of poetry in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

From after the Han and Wei Dynasties, scholars had re-positioned the relation between man and universe while discarding Confucianism of Ran Dynasty, so that they carrxe to have sense of solitude. The engender of the senes was related to the social conditions of frequent wars, eqidemic and chaotic politics happercd since the end of the Han Dynasty. The solitary mentality of scholars had influence upon the literary creation of that time, which emerged through describing aLd intoning the contrast between man and nature, constituting the particular beautifulness of desolation for the literature of that time.