The representative figure of pastoral poet is Tao Yuanming. In the history of China literature, Tao Yuanming was the first person who wrote a large number of poems on the theme of rural scenery and rural life. His pastoral poems created a new school of classical poetry in China-the school of pastoral poetry, which was highly praised by poets in past dynasties.
Tao Yuanming (about 365-427) is a famous and intelligent figure, nicknamed Mr. Wu Liu, and is known as Mr. Jing Jie in the world. One is from Chaisang, Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi), and the other is from Yifeng, Jiangxi. He was an outstanding poet, lyricist and essayist at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Liu Song Dynasty. He is the first landscape pastoral poet in China, and is known as "ancient and modern recluse poetry school", "recluse poetry school" and "the originator of landscape pastoral poetry school".
Characteristics and influence of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems
Tao Yuanming has the largest number of pastoral poems and the highest achievements. This kind of poetry fully shows the poet's noble integrity in keeping his ambition; It fully shows the poet's love for simple pastoral life, his understanding of labor and his friendly feelings for working people. It fully shows the poet's pursuit and yearning for the ideal world. As a scholar-bureaucrat, such thoughts, feelings and contents are unprecedented in the history of literature, especially in a society with strict gate system and concept.
Some of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems also reflect his predicament in his later years, which can help readers indirectly understand the miserable life of the peasant class at that time. Tao Yuanming is the pioneer of pastoral poetry. His pastoral poetry, with its simple and natural language and lofty artistic conception, opened up a new world for China poetry and directly influenced the pastoral poetry school in Tang Dynasty.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Yuanming.