Tao Yuanming was the first poet to consciously create a large number of landscape poems. His landscape poems play an important role in the history of Chinese literature.
Tao Yuanming was born in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty and experienced an era of war and turmoil. He once held many official positions, but because of his discomfort and conflict with officialdom, he finally chose to retreat to the mountains and become a hermit. His secluded life provided him with rich natural landscapes and inner experiences, which provided important material for his creation of landscape poems.
Tao Yuanming's landscape poems express his love for nature and his admiration for nature. His poems depict a large number of natural landscapes, including mountains, water, trees, flowers, birds, animals, etc. Through the description of natural scenery, he expresses his feelings and understanding of nature. His poems not only express the beauty of nature, but also express the harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Tao Yuanming's landscape poems had a profound impact on later generations. His poems not only influenced later landscape poets, but also influenced the development of Chinese literature as a whole. The natural landscape and ideological connotation in his poems have become important elements in Chinese literature. His poetry has also become an important way for people to appreciate and understand nature.
Characteristics of landscape poetry:
1. Expression of natural landscape: Landscape poetry takes natural landscape as the main expression object, focusing on describing the shape, color, charm, etc. of natural scenery, as well as the author Integration with nature. In Tao Yuanming's landscape poems, the performance of natural landscapes is particularly prominent. For example, in "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields", he picks chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and sees the Nanshan Mountain leisurely. It depicts the beautiful scenery of the Nanshan Mountains and expresses the author's love for nature and his admiration for nature. .
2. Profound emotional expression: Landscape poetry not only expresses the beauty of nature, but also expresses the author's emotions and thoughts. In Tao Yuanming's landscape poems, the emotional expressions are profound and sincere. For example, in "Drinking", the cottage is in a human environment without the noise of cars and horses, which expresses the author's weariness with the noisy society and his yearning for a quiet life.
3. Exquisite artistic techniques: Landscape poetry often uses various artistic techniques, such as metaphors, symbols, personification, etc., to express natural landscapes and emotional expressions, making the poems more vivid, vivid, and contagious. . In Tao Yuanming's landscape poems, the use of artistic techniques is particularly exquisite. For example, in "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields", the birds in the garden are nostalgic for the old forest, and the fish in the pond are thinking about their old places. They use metaphors and symbols to express the author's desire for a free life. Nostalgia for past lives.