 Burton Watson further notes the evident lack of the imagery of wine in Ruan's surviving poems.Not that he was unacquainted with it, even recorded as having remained continuously drunk for 2 months to avoid an undesirable marriage which was urged upon him with great political pressure such that he could not overtly refuse.Counted as a Jin dynasty poet and official, Zhang Hua (232–300), was actually born before the creation of the Jin dynasty, however he flourished poetically during it, and died during it (as a result of the War of the Eight Princes).