Tao Yuanming, I thank you for your sincerity.
"Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely." ("Drinking" Volume 5)
Yes, he is such a handsome and peaceful recluse poet. This is really his best self-portrait, because in many of his works, he left similar ink marks.
From Mr. Wu Liu's "I missed many times and forgot the gains and losses", I was old and fell in love with Xi, ending my life; From resignation to retirement, to regret after ploughing; From the enjoyment of getting along with the villagers in real life to the beautiful vision of the ideal realm of Taohuayuan. All these consistently show his leisure and elegance, staying away from the hubbub, being peaceful and happy.
Therefore, it won the title of "ancient and modern hermit poet school" very early.
Tracing back to the source, the reason why I love Tao Yuanming was just shocked by his mood at first. However, as I got to know him better, I found that his heart was not always as calm as water. On the contrary, many times, his emotions seem so intense: when he was young, he had the passion of "trying to escape from all over the world and visit Philip Burkart"; As an adult, he used the ancient times to lament the present in Fu for Sensible Scholars, and expressed his persistence in the pursuit of ideals in Fu for Leisure. Until his later years, he was still "generous and sad", praising Kuafu and Jingwei who dared to fight with anger and fate, and the hero who gave his life to serve the country in the poem Ode to Jing Ke.
So I wonder why Tao Yuanming, who has always advocated quiet and leisure, is so complicated in his heart.
Personally, I think this is not difficult to understand, because an excellent poet uses his rich inner feelings to show the truth and immortality of poetry. When a person encounters different life situations, it is inevitable that he will show different emotions. In particular, Tao Yuanming lived at the turn of Jin and Song Dynasties (Southern Dynasties), with social unrest, dark officialdom and competitive market trends. The ugliness of society makes him deeply hypocritical and cunning. Finally, he decided to use sincere life to resist the hypocrisy of the times and fresh poetic style to resist the filth of society.
Therefore, Tao Yuanming can always present his true feelings honestly and unreservedly in different periods and situations, which is vividly expressed in his poems.
Simple words convey his joys and sorrows, and his open mind makes him look down on many fame and fortune and laugh at the life and death of the rich and the poor. I think this is probably the fundamental reason why Tao's works have rarely reached the level of Tao's poetry in the past dynasties since the Jin Dynasty.
I finally understand why you are so attractive to our teenagers because you live in seclusion in the mountains. This is your sincerity, your open-mindedness, your optimism and your unruly personality.
Tao Yuanming, I hope more readers can appreciate your poems, feel your truth and persistence, and appreciate your charm after a thousand years.
Tao Yuanming, I thank you for your sincerity.
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The advantage of this paper is that the author found the inner complexity of the poet in the process of reading Tao Yuanming's poems. Thus, the young author knows the world, restores the poet to the turbulent society at the turn of Jin and Song Dynasties, and glimpses the poet's intention of "resisting the hypocrisy of the times with sincere life and resisting the filth of society with fresh poetic style" from the twists and turns of history. This can't be said to be a sign that the little author is good at reading and thinking. The sages have a saying: "If you have doubts, you will enter." This idea of Mr. Wang really deserves our praise.