Zhu Guangqian on Tao Yuanming's "Silence". Tao Yuanming stands out among many poets with his frank and calm style and elegant and upright self-restraint. The world calls him an "idyllic poet". After tasting the ups and downs of life, Tao Yuanming devoted his warm feelings to quiet and solemn words, purified and sublimated his self-realm, and realized that all kinds of life would eventually return to himself, thus reaching the highest artistic realm proposed by Zhu Guangqian-"tranquility".
Blending Chinese and Western literary theories, pinning the ideal of "silence". Influenced by Tao Yuanming's collection in his early years, Zhu Guangqian especially liked Tao Yuanming's "leisure and dilution" style. Because he has read ancient books since he was a child, the Confucian aesthetic views of "gentleness and gentleness" and "complaining without anger" are subtly integrated into Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic consciousness.
Later, during his potential study abroad, Zhu Guang deeply studied Nietzsche, Croce and other western classical aesthetic theories, and on this basis, he took the lead in integrating the traditional Confucian concept of "harmony" and put forward: "Silence is a feeling of epiphany and refuge. It is like a Zen monk Guanyin with a low eyebrow, which transcends all the worries and joys, and at the same time, you can say that it has disappeared all the worries and joys.
Tao Zhu is full of "silence", so he is great. Zhu Guangqian didn't agree with the artistic standard of passion, and regarded the "quietness" of the ancient Greeks as the highest realm of art throughout. He thought that Tao Yuanming was rare to reveal this "quietness" flavor, but he practiced so hard that people forgot that he was a great poet of art.
For Zhu Guangqian, Tao Yuanming's simple poetic style of transcending all worries and joys and reconciling his own emotional conflicts can be compared with Apollo, a typical western poetic god, which is the best foothold of his theory of silence.
Many outstanding poets have emerged in the long history, such as Li Bai and Du Fu. However, Tao Yuanming is always unique, unconventional and uncontested. He insisted on examining his unhappy life and the undercurrent world with aesthetic eyes, and perfectly implemented Zhu Guangqian's literary theory of "solving life with art".
Tao Yuanming "pays attention to it with a detached and quiet attitude", endows Zhu Guangqian with eternal existence from all things that have disappeared, and gives a beautiful interpretation of this realization, even the ideal pursuit of "quietness".