Mr Dongpo relegated Hainan, settled his home at the foot of Luofu Mountain, and only took his youngest son, Su Guo, across the ocean. I built a hut, lived there, ate sweet potatoes and taro every day, but never thought about gorgeous houses and expensive food. I have no other hobbies in my life. I used the history of books as a garden and articles as music to play, and now they are all abandoned.
I especially like writing poems, which are profound and mysterious, and I can't see the aging and fatigue of the old people at all. At that time, Su Zhe was also moved to Haikang and wrote to tell him: "Ancient poets imitated ancient poems, but they did not write poems with the ancients.
The pursuit of ancient poetry began with me. As a poet, I have no other hobbies but Tao Yuanming's poems. Tao Yuanming doesn't write many poems, but his poems seem simple but gorgeous, seemingly simple but substantial. Cao Zhi, Liu Kun, Bao Zhao, Xie Lingyun, Li Bai, Du Fu and others are all inferior.
He and I had 109 poems before and after, among which I am proud of my poems, which I think are not worse than Tao Yuanming. Now I'm going to collect them and record them together for future generations of gentlemen. Let them know my interest. But do I just like Tao Yuanming's poems? For example, I have a strong feeling for his character.
Before he died, Tao Yuanming wrote to his son Yan Tao and others:' I was poor since I was a child, and my family was poor, so I took things everywhere. My upright ability is limited, and I am out of tune with the world. I think I must hate this world, bid farewell to this world and let young people endure hunger and cold. "Tao Yuanming's words should be the truth.