In the first year of Yixi, Tao Yuanming wrote "xi Ci", unsealed and resigned, and officially began to live in seclusion until the end of his life. At this time, the understanding is profound, the political attitude enters a clear period, and the thought also enters a mature period. During this period, he wrote many poems reflecting rural life, such as five "Returning to the Garden" and twelve "Miscellaneous Poems". Tao Yuanming has the largest number of pastoral poems and the highest achievements, and is known as the "Sect of hermit poets in ancient and modern times".
Tao Yuanming is good at poetry, and his poems mostly describe natural scenery and rural life, which is also the main theme of Tao Yuanming's poems. Among them, his excellent works express his boredom with officialdom and secular society, show his interest in leading an honest and clean life and refusing to bow down to please others, but also advocate negative thoughts such as "impermanence of life" and "happy fate". Its artistic features are simple and bright, simple and natural in language, extremely refined and unique in style.
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Tao Yuanming was also the first poet in the history of China literature who wrote a lot of drinking poems. In his intoxicating voice, he accused the right and wrong of being upside down, discredited his peers, or reflected the sinister official career, or showed the intoxicated feelings of the poet after he quit the officialdom, or showed the grievances of the poet in the predicament. His language was delicate, simple and true, and his style was sparse and profound.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Yuanming