The founder of the Pastoral Poetry School is Tao Yuanming.
Tao Yuanming once served as Jiangzhou Jijiu, Jianwei Army Joiner, Zhenjun Army Joiner, and Pengze County Magistrate. His last official career was as Pengze County Magistrate. He abandoned his post after more than 80 days and left from then on. Retreat to the countryside. He is China's first pastoral poet, known as "the sect of reclusive poets in ancient and modern times", and as "the sect of reclusive poets" and "the originator of the pastoral poetry school". Tao Yuanming's works include "Drinking", "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring", "Come Back and Come Back", "The Biography of Mr. Wuliu", etc. He is the first literary giant in Jiangxi.
Tao Yuanming (about 365-427), whose given name was Qian and whose courtesy name was Yuanliang, was also nicknamed Mr. Wuliu. His private name was Jingjie, and he was known as Mr. Jingjie in the world. It is said that he lived in Chaisang County, Xunyang County (today's A native of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, another said to be a native of Yifeng, Jiangxi, he was an outstanding poet, poet, and essayist from the late Eastern Jin Dynasty to the early Liu Song Dynasty.
Types of Tao Yuanming's works
1. Drinking poems
Tao Yuanming was the first poet in the history of Chinese literature to write a large number of drinking poems. His "intoxicating" tone may accuse the upper class society of confusing right and wrong and criticizing the same thing; it may reflect the dangers of official career; it may express the poet's intoxicated mood after retiring from officialdom; or it may express the poet's dissatisfaction in difficulties.
2. Poems about Huaihua
Tao Yuanming’s poems about Huaihua are represented by twelve poems in "Miscellaneous Poems" and thirteen poems in "Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas". More than twelve poems in "Miscellaneous Poems" express his political anguish of having ambitions and difficulties after retiring to seclusion, and express his noble personality that does not go along with the world. It can be seen that the poet's inner sorrow and anger are infinitely deep and wide. The thirteen poems in "Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" express the same content by chanting strange things in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". For example, the tenth poem expresses and shows that one's ambition to help the world is eternal by praising Jingwei and Xingtian's "fierce will is always there". extinguished.
3. Pastoral Poems
Tao Yuanming’s pastoral poems have the largest number and the highest achievements. This type of poem fully expresses the poet's noble integrity; fully expresses the poet's love for the simple pastoral life, his understanding of labor and his friendly feelings towards the working people; fully expresses the poet's pursuit and yearning for the ideal world .
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Yuanming