The artistic features of Tao Yuanming's poems and the exploration of the realm of life: most of the contents of Tao Yuanming's poems show his reclusive thoughts and life. The artistic feature of Tao's poems is the unity of simplicity and mellow beauty, as well as the unity of emotion, scenery and reason. Pastoral poetry praises the leisure life of individuals, but fails to fully reveal the contradictions in rural areas, which is its deficiency, but it is of positive significance to compare the ugliness of officialdom with the beauty of countryside. Poems and epics show the anguish that the ideal can't be realized, the noble character of not colluding with the rulers, and also expose the darkness of social politics in a tortuous way. Tao Yuanming's influence on later generations is mainly positive. But it also contains many negative thoughts, such as wisdom and self-discipline, living like a dream, eating, drinking and having fun in time. Tao Yuanming is an outstanding poet in the history of China literature. His poems take pastoral life as the theme, creating a new artistic realm of pastoral poetry, making pastoral poetry an important part of poetry after Tang and Song Dynasties. Tao's poems followed the simple customs of Wei and Jin Dynasties and entered a more pure and familiar situation. He succeeded in elevating nature to the realm of beauty. He created a new type of beauty in the artistic conception of China's poems, a kind of diluted beauty, which is extremely mellow and unpretentious. All this is inseparable from his rich life experience. Without the experience of rural life, it is impossible to write these well-known pastoral poems, thus making Tao's pastoral poems establish an immortal position in the history of China literature. Tao's thought was basically Confucian, but later it was influenced by Taoism to some extent. He had no ambition to save time, but he gave up this ideal after repeated setbacks, but he was able to stick to his ambition and refused to follow the crowd. It's a pity that he finally "entrusted his luck to take advantage". He wanted to conform to his fate and hold an attitude of ignoring the world. After he returned to the field, he took part in some productive labor and got along with farmers on an equal footing, which was an aspect of his ideological progress and played a great role in his literary achievements. Tao poetry not only opened up a new world of pastoral poetry, but also made great achievements in the art of pastoral poetry. His poetry is a new creation, which poeticizes daily life and finds important significance and lasting poetry in daily life. Before him, Qu Yuan, Cao Cao, Cao Zhi, Ruan Ji and Lu Ji all took national politics as the theme, while Tao took ordinary life as the theme and wrote ordinary things in vernacular, which was poetic. Tao Yuanming devoted all his talent and energy to the creation of landscape pastoral poetry, and achieved unparalleled achievements, pushing landscape pastoral poetry to the peak at once. A Qing poet said, "Tao's poems are magnificent, and one of them is profound and simple, so you can't go everywhere. The founder of the Tang Dynasty has his own innocence, the Mengshan people have his leisure, the Chu Taizu has his simplicity, Wei has his own conflicts, and Cao has his own integrity, all of which are close to learning. " It can be seen that the pastoral poets in the Tang Dynasty absorbed some advantages from Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems, but they could not surpass Tao Yuanming on the whole. Today, Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems still have irreplaceable aesthetic value and attract the attention of modern people.
Influence: Mr. Lu Xun once said, "Tao Qian is great because he is not completely silent." Liang Qichao once said when evaluating Tao Yuanming, "Nature is his loving companion and always smiles at him". As he said, Tao opened a channel between nature and philosophy, and reached a reconciliation between the suffering of life and the purport of nature. Even the most common rural life scene shows an infinite and meaningful beauty in his works. Tao Yuanming's immortal poems and great personality have influenced the thoughts and creations of several generations of literati such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo and Xin Qiji. He made inestimable contributions to the development and prosperity of China literature. Tao Yuanming's poems focus on expressing emotions and aspirations. His language, seemingly simple, is actually wonderful. In plain and mellow poems, there are warm feelings and a strong flavor of life. Tao Yuanming's five poems "Returning to the Garden" are the best or the best among the pastoral poems. Among them, "Little without Vulgar Rhyme" is compiled into middle school students' Chinese textbooks. The lyricism of poetry is refreshing; The scenery of the poem is an eye-opener. Unforgettable after reading it. Whenever you read it, it is a wonderful enjoyment. As a hermit in the troubled times at the end of the Jin Dynasty, it is conceivable that Tao Yuanming often interacted with Buddhism in Lushan Mountain in his later years, but they may not be like-minded ideologically. Anyone who has carefully studied Tao's poems and knows the poet's life knows that Tao Yuanming is an atheist, quiet in appearance, warm in heart and helpful. When I was a teenager, I was ambitious, accepted Confucianism and hoped to make contributions. However, after being an official for a period of time, the reality disappointed him. He didn't want to go along with the people in power, so he chose a road to retire and return to the fields. At this time he was influenced by Zhuangzi's philosophy. Because he lived an idyllic life that many scholars never had, and he personally participated in labor and had contact with the working people, he inevitably got some new feelings and inspirations in his thoughts. Therefore, when the Jin Dynasty advocated the old style of writing, he was able to create a new form of pastoral poetry with a unique style and made great contributions to the history of China's poetry development. He never forgot this world from his "ambition to escape from the four seas" in his youth to his "ambition to stay in the world" in his old age. His masterpiece "Peach Blossom Garden" handed down from generation to generation is precisely his vision for a society where everyone is self-reliant and friendly, without all kinds of troubles and poverty in reality. Even analyzing his seclusion and drinking in the background at that time contains the significance of expressing some dissatisfaction and resistance to the dark rule at that time. Of course, Tao Yuanming was, after all, a scholar-bureaucrat who lived in the feudal society more than a thousand years ago. In his thoughts and poems, many negative things cannot be avoided, such as poverty, eating, drinking and avoiding the world. However, due to his class preference, literary critics and poets of later generations pay more attention to appreciating and praising his characteristics in this respect, which is regarded as the essence of Tao Yuanming's poetry.