First, the artistic style is natural, mellow and meaningful.
Fang, a poet in A Qing, once said: "Reading Tao Gong's poems, taking true stories, true scenery and truth, is really self-satisfied." The word "truth" shows that his pastoral poems are realistic and natural. Generally speaking, most of the themes and contents of his pastoral poems come from his rural life after retirement. For example:
Xia Meng is lush in this season, and my home is surrounded by green trees. Birds seem to be satisfied with their food. I love my thatched cottage. I tilled the fields and studied when I was young. Live in a secluded village lane, away from the noise, even if old friends drive back. Enjoy spring wine and pick vegetables from my garden. The drizzle blows from the east, accompanied by a fresh breeze. Pan-browse "Biography of Zhou Wang", flowing all over the mountains and seas. Pitch to the end of the universe, what if you are unhappy!
Second, the artistic realm is lofty, unconventional and natural. Mainly reflected in the integration and unity of emotion, scenery, things and reason.
In poetry creation, the blending of emotion, scenery, events and reason is very important, and emotion is the most important. Without the scene of love, there is no life, and without the reason of love, it is even more boring. If there is no strong emotional infiltration in the scenery and the room, the work will lose its vitality. In Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems, birds and animals, flowers and plants all contain strong thoughts and feelings; At the same time, the poet is good at combining emotion with reason, visualizing his deep understanding of life and reality, and closely combining poetry with philosophy and scenery, giving people a fresh and natural feeling without being boring. Scenery, emotion, events and reason in poetry blend with each other, penetrate each other and set off each other. No matter from which angle, you can enjoy different wonders and endless beauty.
Third, the language is natural, concise and vivid.
Tao Yuanming has rich life thoughts and high artistic attainments. Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems do not need ornate rhetoric decoration, nor do they need to be as elaborate as sculptors. Instead, it uses simple and natural language and sparse brushstrokes to concisely outline vivid images and convey profound meanings, thus achieving the artistic effect of freehand brushwork and vivid expression. The artistic conception of his poems is lofty, and the meaning contained in them is also strange and ingenious. It's really wonderful, but there is no trace of the axe!
In a word, Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems are rich in content, profound in meaning and profound in artistic style. The artistic realm is lofty, vulgar and natural; Language is natural, concise and vivid. In particular, the creation of the new theme of landscape pastoral poetry has created a new aesthetic type in the artistic conception of China's poetry, a kind of plain beauty with mellow and unpretentious charm, and has become the "plain school of the first generation". It has created a new development space for later generations' poetry creation, effectively promoted the development of later generations' poetry art, and thus laid its immortal position in the history of literature.