Tao Yuanming's View of Poetry

Tao Yuanming's Poetry and Its Appreciation

Born in the Eastern Jin Dynasty for three years (about 365-427), he was cheerful and famous for his fame. He was called "Mr. Wuliu" because he had five willow trees at home, and was also called "Jingjie" (after his death, he was privately started by a friend without being promulgated by the court, so he was called lynching). Tao Kan, the great-grandfather of Xunyang Chai Sang (now southwest of Jiujiang, Jiangxi), made outstanding contributions to the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was an official of Fu, the commander-in-chief of the military affairs of the eight countries, and Jing and Jiang were the secretariat of Changsha.

He is the first pastoral poet in China. Ren Jiangzhou offered wine, Jianwei joined the army, Zhenjun joined the army, Pengze county magistrate, and then abandoned his official position and retired. Later generations called Mr. Jingjie. There is Tao Yuanming's collection. Its recluse culture has three styles: one is soft, the other is light, and the third is far away.

When I was a child, my family declined. When I was nine years old, I lost my father and lived alone with my mother and sister. Orphans and widows live in their grandfather Meng Jia's house.

Tao Yuanming (365-427), also known as Tao Qian, worked as a small official for several years, then resigned and went home, and lived in seclusion from then on. Pastoral life is an important theme of Tao's poems, and people later called him an "pastoral poet".

In his pastoral poems, his boredom with dirty reality and his love for quiet pastoral life can be seen everywhere. In Returning to the Garden, he described officialdom as a "dust net", compared being in it to "catching birds" and "pond fish", and compared retiring from the countryside to rushing out of the cage and returning to nature.

Because of his actual labor experience, his poems are full of the joy of laborers, showing the thoughts and feelings that only laborers can feel. For example, the third poem "Returning to the Garden" is a powerful proof that this is the progress of his pastoral poetry.

The poet was disappointed with the reality and was forced to return to poetry to build an ideal society. Peach Blossom Garden poetry is a reflection of his ideological tendency.

In addition to his pastoral poems, Tao Yuanming also has poems praising warriors, poems full of patriotic enthusiasm and poems isolated from the world, which shows the complexity of his poetic thoughts.

Tao Yuanming's poems are mostly based on rural scenery and ordinary life, which are directly expressed by simple language and line drawing techniques, making people feel natural, cordial and sincere, without any traces of artificial carving, guiding readers to appreciate the relaxed and diluted feelings and enter the artistic conception created by the poet.

Drinking (5)

Tao Yuanming

Building a house is human, and there are no horses and chariots.

Ask what you can do, your heart is far from self-prejudice.

Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely.

The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back.

That makes sense. I forgot what I wanted to say.

The first four sentences, in the form of questions and answers, reveal a common and interesting life phenomenon-"the heart is far away from itself." The phrase "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence" comes from "keeping your heart away from yourself". It is said that when picking chrysanthemums in Dongli, I accidentally saw Nanshan, so my eyes shook and I was attracted by the beautiful scenery of Nanshan in the evening. While creating the humanistic environment of the house, picking chrysanthemums; Being in Dongli, but fascinated by Nanshan, the whole theme is always expressing the word "far". The "true meaning" of the last two sentences is here, and so is "forgetting words". The so-called "true meaning" is actually the willful, frank and complacent life interest brought by this kind of "far-reaching ambition"; The so-called "forgetting words" means that in Tao Yuanming's view, there are always some people who are in favor of the situation, and people who are in cahoots can't appreciate this kind of life interest!

Guiyuan Tianju (1)

Tao Yuanming

Few people do as the Romans do. Their nature is to love nature.

I sneaked into the official career network and have been away from the game for more than ten years.

Birds in cages are often attached to the forests of the past, and fish in ponds yearn for the abyss of the past.

I want to open up wasteland in Minamino and keep my humility to the fields.

The house is surrounded by about ten acres of land, thatched cottages.

Willow trees cover the eaves, and peach trees cover Li Lieman in front of the hospital.

The neighboring village of the neighboring village is faintly visible, and there is smoke in the village.

Several dogs barked in the alley, and the mulberry tree was barked by a rooster.

There is no dust and sundries in the yard, and the quiet room is comfortable and leisurely.

Trapped in a cage without freedom for a long time, I finally returned to the forest today.

[Appreciation]

This is a narrative poem. In the first year of Emperor Yi's reign in Jin 'an, the author voluntarily resigned from the Pengze county magistrate and decided to retire to the countryside and stop being an official. The following year, he wrote five poems "Returning to the Garden", describing his happy mood when he left the officialdom and praising his devoted life and rural scenery.

Content: This poem is the first poem in the group of "Returning to the Garden", which describes the reasons for abandoning officials and returning to the fields, the rural life after returning to the fields, and the happy mood of returning to nature.

The first four sentences reflect the poet's interest and official life when he abandoned his official position and returned to the field, and also explain the reasons for abandoning his official position. "① _ _ _ _ _ _ _" refers to the secular flatterer who has learned nothing, and prefers a quiet and simple pastoral life because he feels that his nature is interlinked with nature. What is written here is the poet's usual interest, which also shows that his later career is not his original intention. "Custom rhyme" refers to the ability to cater to the secular nature and socialize and hack.