pastoral Tao Yuanming
Compared with Wang Xizhi's 47-year-old "Lanting" with 41 people "trimming bouquets" and "writing poems", Tao Yuanming abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown at the age of 274. He often only has quiet time to drink dirty wine behind closed doors. Of course, this is completely different!
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy achievement is unparalleled. He prefers geese to goose meat. Later generations thought that he was inspired by observing the whole body movements of geese. Bao, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, said, "When you set the table, you should put your feet straight. Only when you realize the water potential of the goose can you know that it is difficult to work with all your fingers. Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Orchid Pavilion, written at the age of 51, is his masterpiece, with excellent calligraphy. It turned out that he had already become a martyr of Emperor Taizong, which made future generations cry! After Wang Xizhi left the officialdom at the age of 49, he traveled around, then went home to plant fruit trees. Accompanied by his descendants, he ended his relationship with Song Wenyu in Zhang Shaochun. With Wang Xizhi's aristocratic background, it is certainly not surprising.
Tao Yuanming was born four years after Wang Xizhi's death. Although he had a good family background, he did not belong to Wang and Xie, and because he loved nature, he resolutely gave up the post of Pengze county magistrate in his prime and returned to his hometown to start his pastoral life for more than 2 years. He is honored as an idyllic poet and a recluse poet. In the autumn when he was about fifty-three or four years old, he wrote a group of twenty poems
Good wine is born to be a drinking poem.
In Xiao Tong's Preface to the Collection of Tao Yuanming, it was said that Tao Yuanming drank wine as a souvenir, but in the Biography of Tao Yuanming, it was said that when Tao Yuanming was ordered by pengze county, he planted 2 hectares and 5 mu of grass. Tao Yuanming was unwilling to be an official because of his poor family, but he planted five-sixth of the public land with glutinous rice suitable for wine making. In the Biography of Teacher Wu Liu, he put it more bluntly: "Sexual alcoholism. "He is good at drinking. Why did he borrow wine to cover something up? However, since all the officials have abandoned their posts and returned to their hometowns, the poverty of "farming is not enough for self-sufficiency" has returned. Where can we get wine to drink? We can reasonably speculate that:
First, we grow our own chopsticks, make our own wine and drink our own.
2. Invite the old man to drink or deliver wine: He said, "If you are poor, you will never get it. I know so well, I'd better buy a wine trick. " "The old friend rewarded me with interest and got along with me." "So, the old gift of leftover wine is the gift of immortality."
Third, a good friend delivers wine: when Yan Yanzhi took up his new job, he passed through Xunyang and invited him to drink every day; Leave 2 thousand yuan when you leave. Tao Yuanming put all his money in the restaurant as wine money and slowly went to get the wine.
fourthly, Wang Hong, the secretariat of Jiangzhou at that time, wanted to make friends with Yuanming, and sent wine again and again.
Therefore, although Tao Yuanming can't get wine often, he has many opportunities to drink, so there are many "wines" in his poems. Let's first look at the famous preface to drinking poems and some poems:
The preface to drinking poems says, "I'm not happy, and the autumn night is long. Occasionally, there is famous wine, and I don't drink it all night; When I was alone, I suddenly got drunk again. After getting drunk, I amused myself by asking a few questions, writing a lot of paper and ink, leaving no explanation, and talking about my old friend's book.