Tao Yuanming was a famous thinker, writer and a great poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After he lived in seclusion in the mountains, he mainly engaged in the creation of "pastoral poems", taking poetry as his pleasure, and was called "the first pastoral poet in China" by later generations. First of all, he pioneered the description of rural life and opened up a new world and a new realm for China's classical poetry. He spent the rest of his life in the countryside, and at the same time gained a free, quiet, lively and comfortable happy mood.
Tao Yuanming "studied Confucian classics since childhood, loved leisure, read good deeds, cherished solitary thoughts, loved autumn mountains, had lofty aspirations and different customs". Murong Xu says: "The general angle knows the Tao", and the sixteenth article of Drinking says: "Young people are poor and it is good to swim six classics". He was educated by Confucianism in his early years, and he had the ambition of "aiming at the world and enjoying Philip Burkart". He has both Taoist and Confucian accomplishments.
Tao Yuanming's Writing Style
The language of Tao Yuanming's works is plain, but it is to express deep feelings and rich thoughts in simple and plain language; The meaning is easy to read, and the connotation needs to be carefully tasted, but it is also sincere. Liang Shiqiu said, "Brilliance is attributed to dullness, but that dullness is not mediocrity, that dullness is not dullness, and that dullness is an artistic charm that does not reveal traces."
Tao Yuanming is good at poetry and prose. Most of his poems describe natural scenery and his life scenes in the countryside. Tao Yuanming is the first pastoral poet in China, and his poems focus on expressing his feelings and aspirations. Lyricism, scenery description and discussion are closely combined, and the scene blends, which embodies the author's personality, his lofty self-worship and his indifference to the secular.