Tao Yuanming’s Composition in My Eyes (1)
Speaking of Tao Yuanming, people will think of "The Peach Blossom Spring", "The Biography of Mr. Wuliu" and "The Return of the Return". There is also the longing for the fairy-like life of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and leisurely seeing the southern mountains". As everyone knows, he is a great poet who has left famous poems that have been handed down from generation to generation. He also has a strong idealistic thought - "the mind is far away and the place is biased."
To talk about Tao Yuanming, we have to fall into the cliché and talk about the social environment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty where talents were not promoted from the gentry, the usage was inferior to those of the powerful, and the clan system was extremely harsh. Indeed, it is very unfair to the children of poor families to "reward the virtuous but not from the gentry". However, Tao Yuanming is different. His great-grandfather was Tao Kan, the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His grandfather and father were both prefects. His family environment is unknown. Much better than his great-grandfather's time. Tao Kan was born into an outright low-class family. His family was poor, his father died young, and he was raised by his mother. When Fan Kui, a descendant of a wealthy family, came to visit, there was a legend about "Tao's mother getting a haircut", which shows Tao Kan's family background. Later, with Fan Kui's recommendation, he changed from "just as far away as the world" to "as high as the temple." But after arriving in Luoyang, Tao Kan was not taken seriously. Even the wise prime minister Zhang Hua did not take him seriously. Although after talking with Tao Kan, he felt that he was indeed extraordinary, but he did not reuse him. . It was such a Tao Kan who encountered obstacles everywhere. He seized the historical opportunity and relied on his military talent to become the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
As a descendant of Tao Kan, Tao Yuanming lived a life of "self-reliance and poverty in his youth. The baskets and ladles ran out many times, and the grains of rice dried up in the winter." However, he also had "big problems". The ambition of "benefiting the common people". In this case, why did he first serve as a wine minister in Jiangzhou and then resign soon after because he was "unworthy of his official duties"? Then the state government called him to be the chief registrar, but he refused to take up the post and lived idle at home for six or seven years? Is it possible to realize the ambition of "helping the common people" by working at home? Maybe he felt that this official title was too small to realize his ambitions. When he was thirty-six years old, he served as an assistant to Huan Xuan, the governor of Jingzhou. Soon after, he resigned and went into seclusion. At the age of forty, he joined the army as general of the town army Liu Yu, and later as general of Jianwei and governor of Jiangzhou Liu Jingxuan. Why did he resign at the age of forty-one? Or are these positions not enough for him to settle down? Thinking back to his great-grandfather's work under Zhang Kui, the prefect of Lujiang, all he did was hard work. How could such a person not be appreciated by his superiors? But Tao Yuanming, "if you don't pay five buckets of rice, you will bow down to a country boy" and resign from office is a negative expression! I wonder how the poets and poets of all ages could praise this? Just imagine, a person with such a lofty ideal as "helping the common people" would casually give up one political opportunity after another. "Resigning from office" is just for a personal reason such as not to give up for five buckets of rice? Then I can say that Tao Yuanming's so-called ambitions are all fake. He is just a selfish person who only thinks of himself. "If you are poor, you can be good for yourself; if you are rich, you can be good for the world." This saying is very true. Although Tao Yuanming at that time could not be good for the world, he could be good for one - at least he was the magistrate of Pengze County and the parent of the people. The officialdom is indeed dark, but you cannot abandon your ambitions just because you want to stay away from this darkness. "The big hermit hides in the court, the middle hermit hides in the city, the small hermit hides in the wild." Tao Yuanming can only be regarded as a small hermit - the real "hidden" is to use his clean body to fight for his ideals and contribute to the country , wash away the filth of darkness with the purity of your soul!
Tao Yuanming’s composition in my eyes (2)
You are carrying a hoe, like a star and the moon, walking through the thick mist of the morning Clouds, walking on the bluestone road, singing selflessly.
You still have great ambitions, but the darkness of the world has hindered you too much. You fell and hurt in the dark. You begin to liberate yourself and take steps towards the infinite manor life. You have the comfort and leisure of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and seeing the southern mountains leisurely". The countryside is a paradise in your eyes.
Isn’t it? Isn’t it your own choice to live a free and easy pastoral life? At the end of the day, you carry a hoe and walk on the country road with your tired body and full soul. It is also a day when an official who is indulged in the feasting and feasting loses his clear direction, but brings with him the rights and rights given to him by the world. wealth. In comparison, who is more valuable?
Your wound becomes more and more painful in the breeze, but you would rather be sober from the pain than be so drunk that you are confused.
Your love of drinking can temporarily escape this world that makes you hate the devil. Under that bright moon, you raise your wine glass, and the fiery aroma of the wine floats thousands of meters away. I don’t know if what you drink is the essence or the sorrow, but your pen is like a thousand pieces of stone in front of the case. Put down. Something? I know that one stroke of the pen in your hand will be the most brilliant and brilliant stroke in the history of literature.
The world has been reading you, but those who can really understand you are as rare as the morning. What you want is to be able to unlock the shackles of people's hearts. This is a true version of yourself.
Your person and even your soul are like a white dot in the darkness. You have backbone and are unwilling to bend to the villagers, but none of this can change the world. You use literature to fill the gap in your soul.
If you can't change the world, then change yourself!
You walk on the bluestone road and sing loudly. Like the morning star in the east, it will always shine brightly!
Tao Yuanming’s composition in my eyes (3)
Tao Yuanming, this name is both familiar and unfamiliar to us. "Peach Blossom Spring" made me get to know him and let me know what he yearned for in his heart; "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields" made me understand his dislike of officialdom and his incomparable love for nature, which shows that he is a noble and noble person. A poet who is complicit in the secular world; "Returning Songs" allowed me to understand his independence from the world and his open-minded optimism.
Tao Yuanming has always had a positive influence on me, and I always feel that he is so upright and noble. His story of "not giving up for five buckets of rice" should be heard by everyone. This also fully reflects all his own good qualities.
However, I feel that his life was so unsatisfactory because "the family was poor and farming was not enough to support himself", so there was "Suijian Yong Xiaoyi", and being an official was not His own wish, but driven by these external factors, he has no choice. And in our real life, if we are asked to do something we don’t want to do, how sad it would be.
After Tao Yuanming retired to live in seclusion in the fields, he wrote many poems with pastoral themes. He should be the first pastoral poet in the history of Chinese literature. Every poem or word he wrote has a unique language. It feels very simple and concise.
Tao Yuanming, I don’t know what words to use to describe his life (m.taiks.com), maybe sad or happy, this is something that only he himself can understand, but we can feel it What is left to future generations is batch after batch of wealth - literature.
Let us share his success and joy with him; let us bear his failure and sadness together; as for the regrets in his life, let future generations make up for him!
"Some people are dead, but he is alive."
I think: Tao Yuanming is among them!