Stay close to the birds and away from the noise. (Chang dang: "In the Heron Lodge")
Look up at the stars and the moon. Birds sing in the morning. The voice is pitiful. (Cao Pi: "Ge Yanxing")
Flowers bloom at dawn and birds return at dusk. (Bai Juyi: "Spring outing Qin and Li Erke abroad, because of giving long sentences")
Golden pill falling birds, lying in Qionglou at night. (Li Bai: Boys)
Open the porch to face Angelababy and lie down to watch the birds. (Wang Wei: "Stay in another mountain, a warm and ancient brother, show it to my younger brother")
Birds are common images in ancient poems, either as symbols of freedom, as observers in different places, or as messengers to participate in the emotional construction of the whole poem.
Poets often use the free flight of birds to describe the realization of life ideals, and some even reach the incarnation of birds, roaming in the vast sky, reaching a transcendent and metaphysical realm-the realm of carefree travel that Taoism yearns for. The aforementioned poems "Shi Fo" and "Wang Wei opens a porch to look at the birds" ("Stay in Bieshan, warm the old brother and show the younger brother") are similar to this artistic conception.
However, there are a lot of bird images in Tao Yuanming's poems, which have different meanings in different periods and entrust the author with different emotional experiences. It can be said that the images of these birds are a true portrayal of Tao Yuanming's heart in different periods. Tao Yuanming pinned his inner desire and loss, pleasure and distress, leisure and loneliness on the bird image in his works. The concrete images of birds are used to convey inner feelings and feelings, so that abstract ideas can be transformed into concrete images, such as "high birds", "tired birds", "returning birds", "captive birds", "solitary birds", "fine birds", "lost birds" and "nursing birds". Therefore, we can grasp Tao Yuanming's inner world through these complicated bird images.