There are differences and similarities between Wang Wei's pastoral landscape poems and Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems in ideological content and artistic style. Due to reasons such as life experience and character cultivation, Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems mostly describe pastoral scenery and style. It is sincere and natural, with light language and strong flavor; while Wang Wei's pastoral landscape poems mainly describe the leisure and leisure life of living in seclusion in the mountains and forests. The poetry style is fresh and elegant, and there are paintings in the poems. However, Wang Wei's study of Tao Yuanming and their political influence After being frustrated, they all fled to a natural life, which made their poems take nature as the main descriptive object in content, with simple and clear language and unique artistic conception.
[Abstract] Tao Yuanming is the founder of pastoral poetry in my country, Wang Wei inherited Tao Yuanming and based on this, he combined pastoral poetry and landscape poetry to develop pastoral landscape poetry. Due to life experience and other reasons, in terms of content, Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems mostly describe pastoral scenery, while Wang Wei's pastoral landscape poems mainly describe life in seclusion in the mountains and forests; in terms of artistic characteristics, Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems are plain, mellow and philosophical. , and Wang Wei's pastoral landscape poems use movement to describe stillness, and there are paintings in the poems. Because of Wang Wei's study of Tao Yuanming, their poems all express profound artistic conceptions by describing ordinary things.
Tao Yuanming, courtesy name Yuanliang, is the founder of pastoral poetry in the history of Chinese poetry. After Tao Yuanming resigned from office and went into seclusion, he plowed the fields in the south and worked for his own family, thus introducing the ordinary pastoral labor life into the artistic nursery of poetry, creating a new form of pastoral poetry and making great contributions to the development of poetry. Tao Yuanming and Xie Lingyun, the founder of landscape poetry, are both known as "Tao Xie" in the history of literature. The landscape pastoral poetry they represented directly launched an important creative school in the Tang Dynasty, namely the landscape pastoral poetry school. Therefore, it has important pioneering significance in the history of literature. Tao Yuanming used simple and clear language to eulogize the beautiful and simple pastoral scenery and praise the ordinary working life. Zhu Guangqian's "On Poetry" commented on Tao Yuanming's poetry like this: "Yuanming's status among Chinese poets is very high. Only Qu Yuan before him and only Du Fu after him can be compared with him. Qu Yuan is more melancholy than him, and Du Fu is more... He is broader and more varied, but not as mellow and refined as him."
Wang Wei, also known as Mojie, was a very famous poet in the poetry world of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He was known as Wang Youcheng because he was the minister of Youcheng. . Wang Wei composed a large number of poems throughout his life, among which his landscape and pastoral poems are the most famous. He continued to innovate on the basis of learning "Tao Xie", and finally formed his own characteristics and style. Wang Wei's poems are popular in contemporary times and have been praised by later generations. Cai Yi commented on Wang Wei's poems in "Poetry of the Western Qing Dynasty": "Wang Mojie's poems are rich and elegant, covering ancient and modern times. But like a person who has been hiding in the mountains and forests for a long time, he has become a man of vastness." [2] Du Fu also once said in "Relieving Boredom" No. 8 of "Twelve Poems" commented on Wang Wei like this: "The master Wang Youcheng is nowhere to be seen, and the hills and valleys of Lantian are full of cold vines. It is said that Xiuju Ning District is full of people, and the wind and power of the country have not been eliminated." [3] This shows Wang Wei's status in the poetry world of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. .
Wang Wei and Tao Yuanming were both important figures in ancient Chinese poetry. The following is an analysis of the similarities and differences between Wang Wei's landscape pastoral poetry and Tao Yuanming's pastoral poetry from the perspective of ideological content:
The writer's Personal life experience and his attitude towards social life have a direct and important impact on the ideological content of his works. The similarities and differences in ideological content between Wang Wei's landscape pastoral poetry and Tao Yuanming's pastoral poetry are the best proof of this point.
Tao Yuanming was born in a noble family. His great-grandfather Tao Kan was an important official in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, reaching the rank of Grand Sima. His grandfather and father had both been governors, but by the time Tao Yuanming arrived, his family's financial situation had already been ruined. He said in his "Self-Sacrifice Essay": "I am a human being, and when I am lucky enough to be poor, I often run out of baskets and ladles, and the harvest is old in winter." Poverty was Tao Yuanming's childhood experience, and it also directly affected Tao Yuanming's life choices.
Because of this family background,