Tao Yuanming's works include: "Drinking", "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields", "Record of the Peach Blossom Spring", "The Biography of Mr. Wuliu", "Returning to the Field", etc.
Tao Yuanming's poetic thought of taking nature as beauty and truth as beauty illuminates the character's personality and makes readers strongly feel the poet's arrogant and unyielding personality charm in pursuit of freedom; reflected in the content, It introduced pastoral life into the poetry world and opened up a new world for the development of Chinese poetry; when it penetrated into art, it produced a simple and distant artistic realm and an aesthetic style that dilutes nature.
About Tao Yuanming:
Tao Yuanming (about 365-427), courtesy name Yuanliang, nicknamed Mr. Wuliu, privately nicknamed "Jingjie", was a poet in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty. , litterateur, poet, essayist. Han nationality, a native of Chaisang, Xunyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi). He worked as a minor official for several years, then resigned and returned home, where he lived in seclusion ever since.
Tao Yuanming, China is a great poet comparable to Qu Yuan, Li Bai, Du Fu and Su Shi in the history of Chinese literature. Tao Yuanming himself never said where he was from, nor even when and where he was born. Therefore, there are many versions of Tao Yuanming's birth year, such as 365 AD, 369 AD, 372 AD, etc.