Tao Yuanming’s transcendent essay on life and death, poverty and wealth, poverty and prosperity is as follows:
Tao Yuanming is the most serious person in Chinese history who has thought deeply about the value and meaning of life and understood the meaning of life. Authentic ancient literati. The confusion and collapse of spiritual values ??brought about by the troubled times of the Six Dynasties made the scholars generally indulge their sensibility and unrestraint, squandering their lives in a free and capricious way, and being unrestrained.
After Tao Yuanming became an official and a hermit for three times, he got rid of the fetters of life problems such as poverty and prosperity, poverty and wealth, official and seclusion, life and death, and achieved spiritual freedom and self-transcendence. He writes life into poetry and presents it in a poetic way. His life, thoughts, spirit, and life consciousness are perfectly presented in his poetry, and poetry and life are integrated. In other words, Tao Yuanming is a person who inhabits poetry. His life inhabits poetry, and his poems present his life state. His realm of life went in and out of Confucianism and Taoism.
Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields is a collection of poems. It was written in the year after Peng Zeling returned to his fields. The first song: narrates life aspirations, describes the simplicity and loveliness of the countryside, and expresses the relaxed mood of getting rid of the dusty net; the second song: writes about cutting off contact with the world, eliminating secular thoughts, caring about farming, and expressing the friendship with Tian Fuye Lao; : The working life of leaving early and returning late reveals the love and cherishment of the secluded life; the fourth poem: about roaming the countryside with my nephew, but seeing ruins, lamenting the changes in the world.
A brief introduction to Tao Yuanming
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 was from Chaisang County, Xunyang County (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province), and another person was from Yifeng, Jiangxi Province. He was an outstanding poet, poet, and essayist from the late Eastern Jin Dynasty to the early Liu Song Dynasty.
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 eighty days. Retreat to the countryside. He is China's first pastoral poet, known as "the ancestral lineage of reclusive poets in ancient and modern times", and as "the ancestral lineage 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.