Why is Tao Yuanming called "pastoral poet"? What are the characteristics of his poems?

Throughout the history of China literature, many famous poets have written pastoral poems, but Tao Yuanming is the earliest among many pastoral poets, and he is also the first poet whose theme is pastoral scenery and pastoral life. In Tao Yuanming's works, the poet's praise for rural life, the beauty of nature and the happiness of rural working life all express the poet's yearning and joy for a free and beautiful rural life. In Tao Yuanming's life, Confucianism's entry into the WTO and Taoism's being an official had a far-reaching influence on him. The former emphasizes the construction of an orderly social ideal and the persistence of individual personality, while the latter pursues individual freedom.

He combined the two to create a fresh and indifferent pastoral poem. The poet takes chrysanthemums, birds and wine as the creative objects, giving the poet infinite lofty feelings. It is not only the poet's pursuit of the ideal of a better life, but also an important creative measure for the poet to resist the darkness of society. The creation of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems has its unique artistic charm, which is the source of continuous learning and reference for later poets. It also provides a direction for the innovation of today's pastoral poetry.

The Book of Songs is China's first complete collection of poems, which records all kinds of poems handed down from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. Among them, there are many chapters about rural praise. According to relevant data, agricultural poetry can be divided into narrow sense and broad sense. Agricultural poetry in a broad sense is the product of agricultural society. These poems have the nature of agricultural society and reflect different aspects of agricultural social life. Narrow agricultural poetry refers to poems that directly describe agricultural production and life and political and religious activities directly related to agriculture.

We generally study the agricultural poems in the Book of Songs from a narrow perspective. Feng Qitian's poems and Xiao Ya Datian's poems in The Book of Songs mostly reflect the scene of large-scale slave labor, which is basically a representation and reflection of reality. Pastoral scenery rarely appears in poetry, but there are occasional landscape sentences in poetry, such as "Yao Tao"? Peach blossoms burn every day? And "sword armor"? Sword green and white dew cream? ,? In the past, I left and the willow leaned; Now I think, rain and snow are falling? .