As a scholar-bureaucrat, such thoughts, feelings and contents are unprecedented in the history of literature, especially in a society with strict gate system and concept. Some of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems also reflect his predicament in his later years, which can help readers indirectly understand the miserable life of the peasant class at that time.
Tao Yuanming is the pioneer of pastoral poetry. His pastoral poetry, with its pure and natural language and lofty artistic conception, opened up a new world for China poetry and directly influenced the pastoral poetry school in Tang Dynasty. In his pastoral poems, his boredom with dirty reality and his love for quiet pastoral life can be seen everywhere.
Because of his actual labor experience, his poems are full of the joy of laborers, showing the thoughts and feelings that only laborers can feel. For example, the third poem "Returning to the Garden" is a powerful proof that this is the progress of his pastoral poetry.
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Tao Yuanming's pastoral recluse poems had a great influence on Tang and Song poets. Tao Yuanming is good at poetry, and his poems mostly describe natural scenery and rural life, which is also the main theme of Tao Yuanming's poems. Among them, his excellent works are full of boredom with officialdom and secular society, showing his interest in keeping a clean life and refusing to bow down and please.
But there are also negative thoughts such as "impermanence of life" and "happy fate". Its artistic features are simple and bright, simple and natural language, extremely refined and unique.
Tao Yuanming is the first pastoral poet in China, and his poems focus on expressing his feelings. Lyricism, scenery description and discussion are closely combined, and the scene blends, which embodies the author's personality, his lofty self-worship and his indifference to the secular.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Yuanming