葛洪生活在晋朝动荡年代。虽然祖父、父亲都曾在朝庭为官,但他少年时家境贫寒。由于他生性寡欲,没有什么别的爱好,又为人质朴不善辞令,不好荣华名利,经常谢客闭门读书。后来虽曾出仕,但志不在彼,而在学问仙道,成为当时著名大学问家,是我国历史上著名医学家、炼丹术家、养生家和道教理论家。《晋书·葛洪传》中认为“洪博闻深洽,江左绝伦,著述篇章,高于班马。又精辩玄赜,析理入微。”这个评价很高。班固、司马迁都是大学问家,《晋书》 Ge Hong lived in turmoil in the Jin Dynasty. Although his grandfather and father were both court officials, he was in a poor family. Because of his sexual oligarchs, there is no other hobby, but also for the simple and honest people rhetoric, not splendid fame and fortune, often thank the students to study behind closed doors. Later, although she was a magistrate, but Chi is not in his life, but in the study of immortality, became a well-known university asked home, is China’s history famous medical scientist, alchemy, health and Taoist theorists. “Jin Shu Ge Hong Chuan” in the “Hongbo Wen deep, Jiang Jue peerless, writing chapters, higher than the Banma. Also profoundly Xuan Zang, analysis.” The evaluation is high. Ban Gu, Sima Qian are asked the university home, “Book of Jin”