Abstract:

Natural philosophy is here referred to the comprehensive practical knowledge about the real physical world. During the Wei-Jin Dynasty a lot of naturalists such as LU Ji, ZHANG Hua, GUO Pu and so on came into being. The rise of natural philosophy was the result of accumulation of traditional Chinese knowledge. The learnings of lexicography, topology, agronomy, herbalism and drawing had the biggest effect on natural philosophy among all kinds of traditional knowledge. The natural philosophy of the Wei and Jin had its features of practice, accumulation of knowledge, and recordation of strange things. In a word, the natural philosophy of the Wei-Jin Dynasty represented an important step in the history of Chinese knowledge evolution.

Key words: natural philosophy, GUO Pu, LU Ji, ZHANG Hua