嵇康將自然義發展出了層次感，首先，他提出了「自然」； 第二，將自然哲學內涵進行深化，並與個人行為相應；第三，以自然為太和，這樣人與自然雖有一定距離但卻具有了走入自然的動力──追尋太和；第四，走入自然有其方式──精神上的遊仙，行動上的服藥，琴的連結；第五，走入自然有其結果，體現在詩歌中即為游仙、玄言與山水的合一；最後，走入自然有其意義──儒學與莊子的再闡釋。「自然」義到了嵇康，終於得到了專門的提出，並且玄學與文學之間因「自然」得以貫通。

Ji Kang exhibited a sense of layering in the meaning of nature. First, he put forward the concept of “nature”; Second, he deepened the connotation of natural philosophy and corresponded with individual be¬havior； Third, He took nature as Taihe so that although there is a certain distance between man and nature, he has the intrinsic longing to go into nature - to pursue Taihe；Fourth, there are ways to go into nature - they seek to fantasize in the world of immortals on the spiritual level,they take elixir to pursue immortality, and they play Qin to create a connection with nature. Fifth,walking into nature has its own result, which is re¬flected in poetry as the integration of immortality, metaphysics and land-scape； Finally, it is meaningful to go into nature - the reinterpretation of Confucianism and Zhuangzi. The meaning of “nature” was specially raised by Ji Kang, and the connection between metaphysics and literature was finally made by “nature”.