Original poem:
I planted beans at the foot of Nanshan, and the weeds in the field were covered with peas. Get up early in the morning to get rid of weeds, and come back with hoes in the moonlight at night. The narrow path covered with vegetation, the night dew wet my clothes. It's not a pity to get wet, but I hope it won't be against my will.
Appreciation of ancient poetry:
The two sentences at the end of "Returning to the Garden, Less but No Folk Rhyme" are: "If you are caged for a long time, you will return to nature." The so-called "nature" refers not only to the rural natural environment, but also to the natural way of life. In Tao Yuanming's view, duplicity, taking social values as his own code of action, and blindly pursuing wealth and fame are behaviors that distort human nature and lose oneself.
The natural way of life is to cultivate one's self-cultivation, eat by oneself, be satisfied with a simple life and abandon the competition and struggle between people. No matter how this understanding should be evaluated in sociology, it is an idea repeatedly put forward at all times and in all countries. Of course, Tao Yuanming, as a descendant of a noble, is a scholar-bureaucrat who rarely experienced the tempering of a truly miserable life.
It is actually difficult to support a family by relying entirely on one's own physical strength; In fact, his family also has servants and "proteges" who have an affair to farm for him. But he is really trying to practice his special understanding of life and society, often taking part in some agricultural labor, and praising the happiness and beauty of this kind of labor in his poems.
Readers should note that Tao Yuanming's "ploughing" cannot be equated with ordinary farmers' farming, because it is not his main economic means to maintain family life; Tao Yuanming's feelings about labor can't be equal to those of ordinary farmers, because this kind of feeling contains profound thoughts about life and society. In ancient times,
It can only appear on a few excellent intellectuals. If you want to find a similar expression, readers can see it in Tolstoy's famous novel Anna karenin. Levin in the novel is the embodiment of the author to some extent. He also personally participated in agricultural labor, seeking the truth of life, in order to criticize the hypocrisy, emptiness and boredom of aristocratic society.