1 fresh brushwork. This is in sharp contrast to the metaphysical poems popular in the poetry circles at that time, which are vague, obscure and tasteless. Tao Yuanming's description of pastoral landscapes never pursues gorgeous language and superficial modeling, but follows the nature, is fresh and natural, and has endless charm.
2 delicate description. Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems are rooted in rural life, and his personal feelings about rural life are integrated into his poems. The most common square houses and grass houses, with trees and flowers, near the smoke far from the village, and chickens and dogs barking, all show infinite vitality and form a beautiful pastoral picture.
3 plain language. Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems can be passed down through the ages, which has a lot to do with the simplicity of his language. Tao Yuanming's unique life experience, simple rural life and simple rural scenery require the use of simple language and painting techniques similar to "Tianjiahua" as much as possible, thus forming a plain and natural style of rural poetry, and achieving the artistic effect of "one word is natural and meaningful, and extravagance is exhausted" (Yuan Haowen's Thirty Poems). Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems have a strong flavor of peasant life and also reflect the poet's own character.
4 the artistic realm of emotion, scenery and reason blending. In poetry creation, it is very important to integrate emotion, scenery and reason, and emotion is the most important. Without the scene of love, there is no life, and without the reason of love, it is even more empty. Jing Heli's works will lose their vitality if there is no strong emotional infiltration. In Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems, birds, animals, flowers and mountains are full of deep thoughts and feelings; At the same time, the poet is good at combining emotion with reason, visualizing his deep understanding of life and reality, and closely combining poetry with philosophy and scenery, giving people a fresh and natural feeling without being boring.
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Nanchong Vocational and Technical College Economic Management Department Zheng Yili