In the first period, Tao Yuanming was 28 years old in the seventeenth year of Taiyuan (392). He has been living in poverty since he was a teenager because of his father's early death. The second period, the period of learning to be an official, was from the age of 29 in the eighteenth year of Taiyuan to the first year of Yi Xi, the emperor of Jin 'an.
(405)4 1 year. The third period, from the second year of Emperor Yi of Jin 'an (406) to the fourth year of Yuanjia (427), is the period of returning to the fields. More than 20 years after back in the game was the most abundant period of his creation. Tao Yuanming's poems 125, including 9 four-character poems and 6 five-character poems11. His four-character poem is not very good. His five-character poems can be roughly divided into two categories; One is the poetry that inherits and develops the lyric tradition since the Han and Wei Dynasties, and the other is the pastoral poetry with few precedents. The artistic achievements of Tao's poetry have been respected since the Tang Dynasty, and even regarded as "the fundamental principle of poetry". After the death of Tao Yuanming
/kloc-for more than 0/00 years, Xiao Tong collected his legacy, catalogued it in different categories, and compiled the Collection of Tao Yuanming.
8 volumes, and personally write a preface and biography. Later, on the basis of Xiao Ben, Yang Xiuzhi of Northern Qi added other versions of Biography of Five Filial Pieties and Preface of Four Eight, and the combined sequence was Tao 10. Yang Ben was out of order at the end of Sui Dynasty, with 9 volumes. Since then, other books have been published one after another, scrambling to make up enough copies of 10. Tao Qian Collection 10, reprinted by Song Yu in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the earliest publication of pottery poems. None of the above books have been handed down. The earliest versions that can be seen today are several versions from the Southern Song Dynasty to the early Yuan Dynasty. There are mainly: Zeng Ji's Poem and Fu has two volumes, Shao Xi's three-year edition in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Guangxu's moment edition in the Qing Dynasty; Ji Gu Pavilion has 10 volumes, which were published in the Southern Song Dynasty and printed in the Qing Dynasty. Burnt and pale
Eight volumes, published in Southern Song Dynasty, with Jiao Shiming's transcript. There are five volumes in the Seventy-two Collections of Han and Wei Dynasties, namely, Jiao-fan Song edition. In addition, there are the Song version of Mr. Dongpo's and Tao Yuanming's poems, and the Yuan version of Su Zhe's big character version. The earliest annotation of Tao poetry was Tang Han in the Southern Song Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty, the comments and comments on this book increased day by day. In the early Yuan Dynasty, Li Gonghuan's Notes on Tao Yuanming, a total of 10: four copies of the series were photocopied. Tao Shu annotated Collected Works of Mr. Jingjie in Qing Dynasty 10, which was published and printed twice by Ancient Books Publishing House. There are "turret series" and "five-story ice pavilion" in Tao Jing's festival poems, which are called "Tao Jing Festival Poems".