"Thirty Years of Falling into the Dust Net by mistake" comes from Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden" in Jin and Song Dynasties, and "Returning to the Garden" consists of five songs. The first poem, from the intense boredom of official life, describes the beautiful and moving rural scenery and comfortable and pleasant rural life, reveals a sense of relief and expresses the love for nature and freedom.
One of the original texts of Return to the Garden:
Few people do as the Romans do. Their nature is to love nature. I sneaked into the official career network and have been away from the game for more than ten years.
Birds in cages are often attached to the forests of the past, and fish in ponds yearn for the abyss of the past. I want to open up wasteland in Minamino and keep my humility to the fields.
When I was young, I didn't follow the custom. It is my nature to love nature. I fell into the trap of official career and left the countryside for more than ten years in a blink of an eye. Birds in cages often miss the mountains of the past, while fish in ponds yearn for the abyss of the past. I would like to reclaim wasteland in the southern wilderness, keep my simplicity and return to farming.
Extended data:
"Thirty years." The spelling of "thirteen years" here is wrong. It happened to be thirteen years since Tao Yuanming became an official and retired. This sentence is just a simple sentence, but it has profound meaning. The poet's idyllic sigh has passed for so many years, and his heart is filled with emotion, but this attachment in the poem is still hidden.
"Falling into the dust net by mistake, thirty years." Showing the bondage of secular life to Tao Yuanming. As a bureaucrat's son, entering a formal career is the usual choice; As an intellectual who is familiar with Confucian classics, if he wants to succeed in society, he must also enter the power organization of society; Comfortable daily life also needs an official. Therefore, he can only rush to the officialdom.
After retiring, Tao Yuanming wrote a collection of poems, Returning to the Garden. Tao Yuanming began to be an official at the age of 29, and he was an official 13 years. He always hates officialdom and yearns for the countryside. In the first year of Yixi (405), he was forty-one, and became an official for the last time. After more than eighty days, Pengze County ordered him to resign and go home. I never came out to be an official again.
According to Tao Qian Biography of Song Dynasty and Tao Yuanming Biography of Xiao Tong, Tao Yuanming retired out of dissatisfaction with decadent reality. Tao Yuanming loves freedom by nature, but at that time, the official atmosphere was extremely corrupt, flattering his superiors, arrogant and arrogant, rampant and shameful. After thirteen years of twists and turns, Tao Yuanming finally realized this completely. The fundamental opposition between Tao Yuanming's character and political society doomed his ultimate choice-seclusion.
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