The poems and essays written by Tao Yuanming are particularly fresh and meaningful. Most of them describe some scenes of Tao Yuanming's own life in the countryside. His simple style and quiet mind all reflect Tao Yuanming's selfless spiritual realm. I don't want anything, as long as I feel comfortable and unconstrained, I just want to do what I want, and I don't bend over for five buckets of rice. Even if you are poor, you should recite poems without regrets, so as not to waste your life. Because the taste of life is happiness.
Few people can truly integrate with nature like Tao Yuanming, and even fewer people can really live in Shan Ye like Tao Yuanming, and even fewer people can sing for the villagers in the mountains. However, not everyone can live a clean and free life. Everyone lives in the whirlpool of society. No matter which dynasty, there are always people who want to escape from reality and live the same life as Tao Yuanming. Especially those poets who have thoughts and feelings are full of yearning for the life described by Tao Yuanming.
Li Bai is, Du Fu is, Dongpo is, and Bai Juyi is. They are all the most famous and influential great poets and scholars of that era. For them, fame and fortune are like taking something out of their pockets, but even so, they just miss Tao Yuanming's life more. This shows that the poet wants a kind of inner richness rather than superficial prosperity. They also want to write poems simply and be a simple person, simple, clear and quiet, just like Tao Yuanming. This is their pursuit.