1, "Gui Xi Ci"
In the first year of Yi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (405), Tao Yuanming abandoned his official position and returned to the field, and wrote "Returning to the Ci".
Tao Yuanming became an official at the age of 29 and has been an official for thirteen years. He has always hated officialdom and yearned for the countryside. At the age of 4 1 in the first year of Yixi, he made his last official career. After more than 80 days, he resigned and went 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. At that time, the county tour visited Pengze, and officials asked him to wear a belt to show his respect. He said angrily, "I don't want to bend over to the children in the village for five buckets of rice!" " On the same day, I hung up my crown and left my post. I gave the word "come home to Xi" to clarify my mind.
2, "Peach Blossom Spring"
Peach Blossom Garden is one of Tao Yuanming's representative works, and it is a preface to Peach Blossom Garden Poetry, which is selected from Tao Yuanming's collected works. Based on the whereabouts of Wuling fisherman, this paper links reality with ideal realm, and through the description of peaceful, happy, free and equal life in Peach Blossom Garden, it shows the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with the real life at that time.
In June of the second year of Yuanxi (AD 420), Emperor Wu of Song abolished Emperor Gong Jin as the king of Lingling. In the second year, Emperor Wu of Song conspired to kill Gong Jin with poisoned wine. These can't help but cause waves in Tao Yuanming's thoughts. He can't change and won't interfere in this situation, so he has to express his feelings with the help of creation to pin his political ideals and good interests. The Peach Blossom Garden was produced under such a background.
Step 3 "Return to the Garden"
Returning to the Garden is a group of six poems by Tao Yuanming.
This group of poems vividly describes the poet's life and feelings after retirement, and expresses the author's happy mood and rural fun after his resignation, thus showing his love for rural life and the joy of workers. At the same time, it implies a sense of disgust at the dark and corrupt life of officialdom, which shows that the author is unwilling to go with the flow and is willing to endure the hardships of field life in order to maintain his complete personality and noble sentiment.
4. "Twenty Drinking Songs"
Twenty Drinking Poems is a set of five-character poems written by Tao Yuanming.
These twenty poems take wine as the theme, expressing the author's feelings and views on history, reality and life, expressing the author's dissatisfaction with reality and love for rural life, and fully demonstrating the author's noble and proud moral sentiment and life interest.
This group of poems was written around 4 17 AD, the twelfth year after the poet returned to the field, just before the demise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The author felt a lot, and wrote his dissatisfaction with reality and love for rural life with drinking as the main topic, in order to escape persecution through drunkenness in a very sinister environment at that time.
5. Biography of Mr. Wu Liu
Biography of Mr. Wuliu is an autobiography written by Tao Yuanming. In this article, the author shows his three major interests, one is reading, the other is drinking, and the third is writing, which shapes a true self, shows outstanding noble character and reveals strong personality beauty.
He expressed his interest in Tao Yuanming through the description of Mr. Wu Liu, a fictional character, with his own articles. This paper describes the image of intellectuals in a feudal era who love reading, do not admire honor and disgrace, are poor and happy, regardless of gains and losses, and are frank and natural.
There are two theories about the time when the Biography of Mr. Wu Liu was written: it was written in adolescence and in his later years. According to Xiao Tong's Biography of Tao Yuanming, Yao Yao believed that Biography of Mr. Wuliu was written before Tao Yuanming went to Jiangzhou for drinking in the 17th year of Taiyuan (392). Lin Yunming, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, speculated that this was what Tao Yuanming did after he resigned.