: Tao Yuanming was the poet with the highest literary achievement in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His poems have a unique style and extremely high attainments in art.
①The content is plain and natural, close to life, cordial and honest, and full of true feelings. The scenes depicted and the things described are familiar to people. Through the description of simple and natural pastoral scenery, he is good at using line drawing techniques, simple language, and no embellishment to describe the life scenes and the author's feelings about life authentically. This creates a fresh and natural character. For example, in "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields", the description of "little and no suitable vulgar rhyme", "a square house of more than ten acres, eight or nine thatched houses", "a warm and distant village, and the smoke in the ruins" are plain and natural. These life scenes and the poet His ambitions and moods are the poet's true feelings, and he writes them very kindly.
② Integrated and complete, with lofty artistic conception. The author is good at creating artistic conceptions, and many of his pastoral poems contain wonderful descriptions of scenery. He takes scenes that are consistent with his own mood and writes them into his poems, which have both objective realities and intentional realms. The natural scenery is permeated with the poet's subjective emotional color, and the scenes are blended and integrated, which is endlessly memorable. It is often organically combined with specific scenery and the poet's sincere feelings. It is mainly based on scenes, leading people to a more lofty and profound realm. This high degree of integration of emotion, scenery and reason is poetry and philosophy. The combination of Tao's poems makes Tao's poems more lofty, fresh and unconventional. For example, "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan Mountain." The word "Youran" is very simple, but it also contains a charm. It means that you can see Nanshan Mountain by accident. There is a very friendly relationship between man and nature. This kind of word is very simple. The relationship is expressed in plain language. "The mountains are getting better day by day, and the birds are returning to each other." This is an objective description of the scenery. From "The birds are returning to each other," we can see Tao Yuanming's full affirmation and satisfaction of pastoral life. Emotional and profound.
③The language of Tao's poems is simple and straightforward, without any trace of chiseling. It is plain, simple, simple and easy to understand, but it is by no means shallow and vulgar. . The seemingly ordinary "Tian Jiayu" in his poems are actually refined through art and are the result of the poet's painstaking efforts. Many of them are very vivid and expressive. The word "wing" in "The New Miao" and the word "jian" in "Picking Chrysanthemums under the Eastern Fence, Leisurely Seeing the Nanshan Mountain" in "Drinking" can both reveal fine craftsmanship in the true color and splendor in simplicity. Zhong Rong in "Drinking" "Poetry" commented that Tao's poems are "simple in style and almost without long words".