Tao Yuanming's Thoughts and Feelings in Returning to the Garden (I)

Returning to the Garden was written by the famous poet Tao Yuanming. Five poems describe the poet's fresh feelings and heartfelt joy when he returned to the countryside. In the poet's pen, the countryside is an ideal cave opposite to the turbulent officialdom, and the ordinary farmhouse scene is full of charming poetic love letters. While describing the pastoral scenery simply, the poet skillfully blended his life ideal and personality sentiment.

Everyone is familiar with Return to the Garden (I), which is well known. Tao Yuanming deeply felt that the society around him was full of material desires and struggles for fame and fortune, and chose to live in seclusion in the mountains with the mentality of not colluding with the secular. Both Peach Blossom Garden and this article express the author's yearning for a better life and his ideal of converting to the countryside and pursuing freedom.