At the beginning of Wang Kangju's anti-seclusion poem in the Eastern Jin Dynasty: "The small tomb is secluded, and the big tomb faces the city. On the first day of Boyi's broken, Lao Dan column history. " Shan Li's note: "Historical records say:" Laozi "is justified." The Legend of Immortals says: Li Er, whose real name is Bo Yang, was born in Yin, which is the next history of Zhou and Zhu. Then he said, "The King of Wu is still waiting for Yin, and Uncle Boyi is ashamed of Qi and refuses to eat. He is hiding in shouyangshan. "A truly enlightened hermit doesn't have to live in seclusion in the mountains like Boyi. Lao Tzu can live in seclusion in the imperial court. Chaoshi, originally referring to the imperial court and the market, generally refers to a crowded and lively place. Deng charm of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also said: "The husband can hide as the Tao, the dynasty can also hide, and the city can also hide. It's hidden in me, not in things. "

The idea originated very early. In the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi, there was a thought of wandering around the world and breaking away from the secular world, but it was not so clear. For example, "Zhuangzi Zeyang": "The Chu of Confucius lies in the pulp of the ant hill. There are husband and wife concubines climbing poles in the neighborhood, and Luz said,' What is evil?' Zhong Ni said, "This is a servant of a saint. Buried among the people, hidden in the bank. Its voice is selling, its ambition is endless, its mouth is saying, its heart is silent, it is against the world, and its heart is disdainful. Is it Shen Lu or his southern evil spirit? " "In the Western Han Dynasty, Dong Fangshuo wrote a song saying," Avoid the Golden Horse Gate because of vulgarity. You can avoid the whole body in the palace. Why are you under the Artemisia in the mountains? " The meaning is more clear. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Yang Xiong also said that "Liu Xiahui is not a hermit of North Korea" in Qian Yuan.

At the beginning of Bai Juyi's poem "Zhong Yin" in the Tang Dynasty: "The great hermit lives in the city, and the little hermit sails in the autumn. Autumn sails are too cold and the market is too noisy. It is better to hide in the middle and hide in the company. " In addition to large and small concealment, it also puts forward "medium concealment".

"The big one is hidden in the dynasty, the middle one is hidden in the city, and the little one is hidden in the wild" seems to come from February River's novel Yongzheng Dynasty: after Yongzheng ascended the throne, Wu Sidao was allowed to stay and hide.