Wang Xizhi's will of being a hermit and his complex of taking up a government post

Wang Xizhi, a famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, had both the will of being a hermit and intention to take up a government post. His life of being an officer and a hermit and his mentality showed that in the Eastern Jin Dynasty scholars always chose to be an officer or a hermit and all cared about the fate of their clan. The actual difference between the life of an officer and that of a hermit lay in if they had political affairs to deal with. Having interest in mountains and rivers and being in the imperial court to take up a government post were not contradictory.