An outstanding poet, lyricist and essayist at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Liu Song Dynasty. Known as "the Sect of Hermit Poets" and "the originator of pastoral poetry". He is the first literary master in Jiangxi.
His poems are sincere, simple and natural, lofty and Geng Jie, and free and easy. It has influenced the thoughts and creations of several generations of literati. He is the author of Drinking, The Peach Blossom Garden, Back to Xi Ci, Biography of Mr.
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Tao Yuanming was a great poet and celebrity in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his great-grandfather was a famous Eastern Jin. Tao Yuanming had the ambition of "living in Italy" when he was young, but in the turbulent era when the country was on the verge of collapse.
Tao Yuanming's ambition cannot be realized at all. In addition, his personality is honest and frank, honest and honest, and he doesn't want to grovel and cling to the powerful, so he has a sharp contradiction with the dirty and dark real society and has a feeling of being out of place.
In order to survive, Tao Yuanming first became a small official in the state, but because he didn't like the bad style of officialdom, he quickly resigned and went home. Later, in order to make a living, he also worked in some low-ranking official positions one after another and lived an anonymous life.
Tao Yuanming was an official for the last time in the first year of Yixi (405). That year, Tao Yuanming, who had passed the "year of no doubt" (4 1 year old), was persuaded by his friends to serve as Pengze county magistrate again. On one occasion, the county sent Du You to understand the situation.
Someone told Tao Yuanming that those people were sent from above, so they should dress neatly and greet them respectfully. Hearing this, Tao Yuanming sighed: "I don't want to be humble enough to pay attention to these guys for the five salaries of a small county magistrate."
Say that finish, just quit his official position and went home. Tao Yuanming became Pengze county magistrate, but it was only more than eighty days. He left his job this time and left the officialdom forever. After that, he took part in agricultural labor while studying as a writer.
Later, due to the continuous disaster of farmland, the house was burned down and the family situation deteriorated. But he didn't want to be an official any more, and even refused to accept the rice and meat sent by Jiangzhou assassins. The court once called him a writer, but he refused.
Tao Yuanming died of poverty and illness. He could have lived comfortably, at least with food and clothing, but at the cost of his personality and integrity. Tao Yuanming won the freedom of mind and the dignity of personality because of "five buckets of rice don't bend his back".
He wrote a generation of poems, and his style will remain immortal. While leaving valuable literary wealth to future generations, it also left valuable spiritual wealth. He became a model of China's later generations for people with lofty ideals because of his lofty integrity.
But Tao Yuanming didn't. Just like today, when we bid farewell to a job we don't like and left our colleagues who have different views with us, he gently let go of the past and devoted himself to his true colors. This is a more grounded Tao Yuanming, a real figure in Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Tao Yuanming's poems show the integrity of despising the powerful and being independent, and his simple and natural poetic style has had a great and far-reaching impact on later poetry creation. Distinctive personality, sincere feelings, plain and simple, without using allusions, concise and implicit.
"Quality and reality, but reality", full of artistic conception and philosophy, subjective freehand brushwork, mixed Confucianism and Taoism. In addition to traditional Confucianism, it is also deeply influenced by Taoism. Tao's poems are "profound and difficult to refine", and are naive and natural.
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