Tao Yuanming is known as "the sect of reclusive poets". His creation created the unity of pastoral poetry and created a new realm for our country's classical poetry.
The society that Tao Yuanming longed for was a society of peace and tranquility, where one cultivates one's own food, has no competition, no hypocrisy, and no mutual oppression and harm; the life he pursues is one that is simple and sincere, indifferent and lofty, with no outside world. The life you seek; the life environment you like is also a quiet and natural countryside. Because of these pursuits, most of his pastoral poems present a calm, peaceful, and distant appearance, but behind them are full of hatred and uneasiness about the real society, and anxiety about the short life and the inability to feel the body. So as Mr. Lu Xun said: "Tao Qian is great just because he is not full of silence."
Tao Yuanming is an atheist who is calm and quiet on the outside, but passionate in his heart to help the world. When he was young, he had great ambitions, accepted Confucianism, and hoped to make achievements. However, after serving as an official for a period of time, he was disappointed by the reality. He did not want to join the ranks of those in power, so he chose a path of retirement and return to farming.