It is difficult to find strange images, exaggerated techniques, gorgeous words and even adjectives in Tao's poems. Everything is honest, simple and natural.
Zhu Ziyun: "Yuan Ming's poems are so high that they naturally flow out of his chest without waiting for arrangement." Shi Cao De of the Song Dynasty also said: "Yuan and Ming dynasties do whatever they see, order their poems, regard flowers as flowers, and say bamboo when they meet bamboo." Indeed, Tao Yuanming seems to have no intention of writing poetry, but he just realized a little truth from life and produced an emotion, which was hidden in his heart and spilled out unintentionally like a spring.
For example, "the mountain stream is shallow and you can lick my feet." Filter out the new wine at home and cook chicken for the neighbors. It is dark to enter the room during the day and the salary is bright. "An ordinary mountain stream, a chicken and a pile of Beijing salaries for lighting show the simplicity of rural life, the kindness of the neighborhood and the mellow rural style. Everything is so fresh and natural, but it is very beautiful.
Tao Yuanming's main achievements:
Tao Yuanming was a great thinker in the Middle Ages. His literary thought is an important part of the literary thought in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. His understanding of truth not only pays attention to the truth of history and life, but also pays attention to the truth of thoughts, feelings and ambitions, which is a perfect artistic truth. At the same time, his understanding of nature also shows the uniqueness of his literary thought.
He doesn't talk about enlightenment, he doesn't carve things, he pays attention to the free expression of emotions and the naturalness of poetry, which is a very high realm. However, both advocating artistic truth and advocating literary essence are for the free expression of life. This is the soul of Tao Yuanming's literary thought.
Tao Yuanming has a very clear understanding of the hypocrisy and darkness of social personnel, so his seclusion is not a passive escape from reality, but has a profound positive significance in criticizing social reality. When he was caught in the predicament of hunger and cold in his long seclusion, although he hesitated and wavered, he did not give in to the reality in the end, preferring poverty and sticking to chastity all his life.