When you are young, there is no joy. I am eager to escape from all over the world. I am in Philip Burkart. With the passage of time, my heart has gone a little bit. -"The Fifth Miscellaneous Poetry"
Tao Yuanming spent his boyhood in Chaisang village. "Tao Yuanming ..." Xunyang-Chai Sangren "(Xiao Tong's Biography of Tao Yuanming) can prove this point. Tao's poem "Love Autumn Mountain" (the fifth part of Returning to the Garden) is a true portrayal of his teenage life. But as a scholar, Tao Yuanming has the same desire to make contributions as the traditional literati in China, and this desire is stronger than that of ordinary literati.
First of all, Tao Yuanming is very proud of his ancestors' achievements. "My ancestors, so with Tang Tao. Li Yan Yu Bin, who has experienced many vicissitudes. Advise Xia, and Wei. Situ, Jiang Mumu, Yi people are prosperous. " The main content of these poems is about the achievements of Tang Tao's descendants. As we all know, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taoism was different from the poor, although it could not be compared with Wang and Xie. Tao Yuanming's great-grandfather Tao Kan was an official under Fu, and his grandfather was also a satrap. These verses in Destiny's Son show that Tao Yuanming is proud of the achievements of his ancestors, and also reflect Tao Yuanming's political ambition-making contributions. Another example is "the sun and the moon abandon people, where there is a will, there are many;" When I read this, I feel sad, but I can't be quiet (Part II of Eight Miscellaneous Poems). "I am eager to escape from the world, and I am worried about Philip Burkart" (Part V of Eight Miscellaneous Poems). "The weak and far-reaching decline has long been white; Plain standard plug, the future is getting narrower "(Eight Miscellaneous Poems). In these poems, we can see that Tao Yuanming laments that he is getting old, "I wish I didn't know his age" (the fourth of Eight Miscellaneous Poems), and without Jianye, "the future is getting narrower and narrower". This also shows that Tao Yuanming feels that his political ambition has not been reflected.
From the above poems, we can definitely say that Tao Yuanming has great political ambitions and hopes to make contributions, although he has "less vulgar rhyme and more love for Akiyama". At the beginning, his "love for posts" was only an interest influenced by metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties and the pastoral life of young people, but he felt the achievements of his ancestors and hoped to make a difference in politics, as he himself said, "emphasizing history" (Life Son). Moreover, in the society that attached importance to the gate system at that time, Tao Kan was always in poverty despite his prominent official position.