Brief introduction of Tao Yuanming

The Statue of Tao Yuanming (about 365-427), Ziliang, Mr. posthumous title Wuliu and Mr. Keisuke, was renamed Qian after entering Liu Song Dynasty. Poet, writer, lyricist and essayist at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Southern Song Dynasty. A native of Xunyang Chai Sang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He worked as a small official for several years, then resigned and went home, and then lived in seclusion. Rural life is the theme of Tao Yuanming's poems, and his related works include Drinking, Returning to the Garden, The Story of Peach Blossom Garden, Biography of Mr. Wuliu, Returning to Xi Ci, Poetry of Peach Blossom Garden and so on.

Tao Yuanming was born about three years ago (365-427), when he mourned the Emperor Xingning in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was named "Mr. May 6th" and privately married "Sister Jing". He was born in Chaisang, Xunyang (now southwest of Jiujiang, Jiangxi) and came from a ruined official family. Great-grandfather Tao Kan, the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, made outstanding military achievements. He was an official of Fu, the commander-in-chief of the military affairs of the eight countries, and Jing and Jiang were the secretariat of Changsha. Grandfather Tao Mao and father Tao Yi are both governors. He is the first pastoral poet in China. Ren Jiangzhou offered wine, Jianwei joined the army, Zhenjun joined the army, Pengze county magistrate, and then abandoned his official position and retired. Later generations called Mr. Jingjie. There is Tao Yuanming's collection. Portrait of Tao Yuanming (13) Tao Yuanming's reclusive culture has roughly three styles: one is soft (weak), the other is light, and the third is the decline of his family when he was far young. He lost his father at the age of nine and lived with his mother and sister. Orphans and widows live in their grandfather Meng Jia's house. Meng Jia is a contemporary celebrity. "If you don't share the same sky, you won't brag for many years and you will never be happy." . Good wine, more without chaos; As for forgetting pride, no one. "-"The Biography of Meng Zhen, General of the Western Expedition in Jin Dynasty ". Yuan Ming "deliberately lived in the world, and many people imitated their ancestors." -catching Qin. In the future, his personality and accomplishment will largely be his grandfather's legacy. Grandfather's family has a lot of books, which provides him with the conditions to read ancient books and understand history. In the Jin Dynasty, the literati took Zhuang and Lao as their ancestors and copied the Six Classics. He not only studied Lao Zi and Zhuangzi like ordinary literati, but also studied the Six Classics of Confucianism and "different books" such as literature, history and mythology. Influenced by the ideological trend of the times and the family environment, he accepted two different ideas of Confucianism and Taoism, and cultivated two different interests: "aiming high" and "loving the mountains".