Poetry and epic: Tao Yuanming's poems and epics are similar in content, and chanting the epic is also a poem. It inherited Ruan Ji and Zuo Si's poetic tradition of chanting epic poems. The main content of poetry is to express one's thoughts, feelings and ambitions. Some show the ideological contradiction between ideal and reality, joining the WTO and being born; Some worries about the realization of the value of life express the anguish of ambition that is hard to pay; Some reflect the noble character of not colluding with the dark reality and sticking to personal integrity; Others express their anger in the form of "King Kong glaring".
Tao Yuanming's official poems are his works during his official period, mostly describing his sufferings, boredom and yearning for seclusion. Such as "The First Town Army Joins the Army" and so on. Most poems are about friendship between friends.