Under the plain and harmonious overall style, there are too many sad contents in Tao poetry, which are embodied in four categories: 1. The sorrow of life and death, 2. Stranger's sadness, 3. The sadness of wandering and parting, and 4. The reason for this is that the attitude and free and easy feelings adopted by Tao poetry have deeply attracted generations.
Tao Yuanming's poems are good at expressing directly with simple language and sketching techniques, which makes people feel natural, cordial and sincere, without any traces of artificial carving.