Tao Yuanming is the founder of "pastoral poetry" in my country and is highly regarded as "the ancestor of reclusive poets in ancient and modern times".
The creative style of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poetry:
(1 ), the pastoral scenery and farming life written by Tao Yuanming are completely integrated with Tao. The poet is not a spectator or appreciator of pastoral life, he is an indispensable person living in it. He did not sing about the mountains and forests, but described the pastoral scenery in a friendly and natural way, and wrote about its peaceful artistic conception and simple and lush life. "The square house is more than ten acres, and there are eight or nine thatched houses." "Dogs bark deep in the alleys, and cocks crow on the top of the mulberry trees." ?
(2) Tao Yuanming’s pastoral poems also truly describe his hard-working life. He would rather work hard than join the others, he is calm, optimistic, and contented, and labor has become an artistic and poetic behavior: "In the morning, I clean up the wasteland and filth, and I return home with a lotus in the moonlight." Before Tao Yuanming, no poet had this feeling, but after him, it became an important theme in poetry creation.
Extended information
Landscape pastoral poetry, one of the ancient Han poems. It originated from Xie Lingyun of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty, and was represented by Wang Wei and Meng Haoran of the Tang Dynasty. This type of poetry is good at describing natural scenery, rural scenery, and comfortable and tranquil secluded life. The poetry is meaningful and beautiful, the style is quiet and elegant, the language is clear and concise, and the line drawing technique is mostly used.
Poets such as Tao Yuanming formed the Pastoral Poetry School of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, poets such as Xie Lingyun and Xie Tiao formed the Landscape Poetry School of the Southern Dynasties, and poets such as Wang Wei and Meng Haoran formed the Landscape Poetry School of the High Tang Dynasty. Poets take landscapes and pastoral areas as their aesthetic objects, and cast their delicate brushstrokes on the quiet mountains, forests, and leisurely fields, creating a pastoral life to express their dissatisfaction with reality and their yearning for a quiet and peaceful life.