This sentence comes from the self-sacrifice of Yuanmingyuan by Wei-. In this eulogy, the author gave a general description of his life situation, personality interest and life ideal. In the author's view, if people want to be happy, they must be happy, that is, they must conform to nature. Only by conforming to nature can they enjoy a clear head and not be bound by material desires.
"My heart is always idle" is opposite to "diligent and tired", which means my heart is idle. In the article "Tao Yuanming's Literature and Character", he will be "diligent and idle, and his heart is always idle. As Tao Yuanming's "personality praise" and "Lotte Committee, lasting for a hundred years", these sixteen words are a summary of Tao Yuanming's spiritual characteristics and a very important conclusion.
Tao Yuanming's "diligence can make up for mistakes" laid the foundation for his plain and elegant poems, but this is not all of Tao Yuanming. There is another spirit in Tao Yuanming: "the mind is always idle" and "the spirit is independent". This spirit is the mark left by the romantic life in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it is also influenced by the people he is close to and loves. Tao Kan, Meng Jia and Tao Yuanming all drink, but they like depth and style.
Tao Yuanming introduced:
Tao Yuanming (365-427), born in Lujiang, was a writer, politician, thinker, painter and poet in the late Jin Dynasty, Southern Dynasties and early Song Dynasty. Tao Yuanming was born in a bitter bamboo by the water. He was smart since he was a child and liked reading. 13 years old, familiar with classics such as The Book of Songs, Songs of the South and The Analects of Confucius.
Tao Yuanming was an official in Jiangzhou and other places in his early years, but he resigned and lived in seclusion because of his antique. He wrote reclusive sketches such as Biography of Mr. Wu Liu and Notes on Mountain Residence, and many poems with far-reaching artistic conception, which are immortal. Tao Yuanming is also an outstanding painter. "Tao Yuanming's paintings are like drinking water. He knows it very well."
Tao Yuanming's works have a wide range of themes, with pastoral poems as the main background, showing the thoughts and feelings of nature and detachment from the times, and showing the personality characteristics of kindness, selflessness, sincerity, openness, indifference and ambition. His poetry is fresh and refined, simple and natural, full of strong humanistic feelings and praise for life, and is known as the "pastoral school".