"overall grasp"
Tao Yuanming's Return to the Garden has five songs, and this is the third one. The poet planted beans at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, "the grass is full of beans." Obviously, I am not good at farming, but I go out early and come back late, taking great pains. On the way home, the west building was wet with clothes, but he didn't care and said, "but I made a wish." On the surface, this poem is about the happiness of farm work, but combining this poem with other poems of the author, the author's "desire" actually has its special connotation-living according to his own wishes and not losing himself in the dirty real world. Even being a farmer is better than "bending down to pick up five buckets of rice" in officialdom.
The language of Tao's poems is very plain and natural, which was obviously not recognized by people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties when the poetic style permeated the literary world. Zhong Rong's poems only list Tao's poems as "domestic products". The simple style of Tao's poems actually opened the poetic style of Sui and Tang Dynasties. This poem is very simple, and the language of "planting beans in Shannan" and "sunset glow on my clothes" has not been modified at all. The plainness of spoken language is in harmony with the mellowness of poetry, and the unity of quality and reality forms the artistic characteristics of Tao poetry.