What is the value of Tao Yuanming's works in the Eastern Jin Dynasty?

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, metaphysical poetry and metaphysical fu prevailed in the literary world, which was the product of retiring in that era. Tao Yuanming was the most accomplished poet in this period. His poems are natural and simple, straightforward and fresh, and contain simple and noble thoughts and aesthetic values. During this period, novel creation began to flourish, one was the works of ghosts and gods produced by the prevalence of witchcraft and the spread of Buddhism and Taoism, and the other was the works of people who recorded anecdotes of literati officialdom under the influence of the atmosphere of talking freely. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Gan Bao's Searching for the Gods is one of the famous novels of Zhi Guai, Pei Qi's Yu Lin is the first novel of Zhi Gua, and Ge Hong's Miscellanies of Xijing (named after Liu Xin).