His friends and fellow poets induced ecstatic experiences through music, wine, and drugs, especially the notorious Cold Food Powder which created psychedelic states and made the body feel very hot, causing people to take off their clothes and jump into pools. When back in their ordinary selves, they wrote poetry of freedom and escape, applying the "Zhuangzi" concept of free and easy wandering in the sense of getting away from it all and continuing the text's tradition in their desperate search for a better world within.