One of Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields" is a famous pastoral poem written the year after the author resigned and returned to his hometown.
The opening line of the poem says , he did not have the character to adapt to the secular world when he was young, and was born to love the scenery of nature. "falling into the dust net by mistake" has a sense of self-blame and regret. Using the "dust net" to compare the officialdom shows the poet's disdain and respect for the dirty officialdom. Disgust.
Both "fettered birds" and "pond fish" are animals that have lost their freedom. Tao Yuanming used them as self-metaphors to show that he missed the beautiful nature just like birds returning to the woods and fish missing their old abyss. Returning to nature means regaining freedom. So how to maintain livelihood? "Opening up the wilderness in the south" can make up for the past mistakes and "return to the garden with modesty".
Next, we will describe the tranquility of nature, Quiet and peaceful pastoral scenery. Although Tao Yuanming has lived at the foot of Mount Lu since he was a child, and the hills and villages here were originally very familiar, but this time he broke away from the fetters of officialdom and returned to the free world forever from the dusty net, so he felt a special sense of joy. and a sense of freshness. He looked back and forward, looking far and near, seeing square houses, thatched cottages, elms, willows, peaches and plums, villages, cooking smoke, and even dogs barking in deep alleys and roosters crowing, they were all pastoral scenes, and all of them constituted the poet. The true interest in the chest.
"Nuan Nuan" means the distant view is blurred; "Yi Yi" means the smoke curls up. In this diluted silence, a few chickens and dogs barking are added to add more color to the rural life. Tranquil and leisurely.
The last four sentences describe the scenery and the heart. The "virtual room" corresponds to the "house", which refers to both the idle and quiet room and the poet's leisurely state of mind. The last two sentences " "Having been in a cage for a long time, I will return to nature" echoes the beginning of the poem. The personality shown here is neither a hermit in a villa nor a farmer in the fields. The scholar-bureaucrats who resigned from office and returned to seclusion have a superior material life, while the farmers in the fields lack Tao Yuanming's spirit. Life, so Tao Yuanming is a poet and philosopher who can truly appreciate the joy of nature and gain spiritual comfort from hard work.
"Returning to nature" is the central theme of this poem. It is the poet's life Ideal is also the main theme of this pastoral poem.