Chang explains that the Wei-Jin era, like today, was a time when conventional structures were falling apart. The old Han dynasty order had been toppled overnight, and this gave rise to various odd phenomena, and a great variety of standards for judging people.
台大中文系教授張蓓蓓表示，魏晉時期正如今天，進入一個解構的時代，漢朝四百年的秩序一夕崩解，各種驚世駭俗的現象出現，當時品評人物的眼光非常開放多元。