Representative figures of pastoral poetry include Wang Wei, Meng Haoran and Tao Yuanming.
1. Wang Wei
1. Introduction to the poet:
Wang Wei was born in the Wang family in Hedong. He became the number one scholar in the 19th year of Kaiyuan (731). Li Guanyou collected relics, censored the censor, and made the judge during the Hexi Festival. During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei paid homage to the official doctor and gave him a job. When An Lushan captured Chang'an, he was forced to accept a pseudo post. After Chang'an was recovered, Wang Wei was appointed Prince Zhongyun, and later promoted to Shangshu Youcheng.
2. Appreciation of the work:
The solitary smoke is straight in the desert, and the sun is setting over the long river. ——"Envoy to the Fortress"
Appreciation: The solitary smoke rises straight up in the vast desert, and the setting sun is round and round on the endless Yellow River. These two poems describe the magnificent and majestic scenes in the border desert, with a vast realm and majestic atmosphere. The poet skillfully dissolves his loneliness into the description of the vast natural scene.
2. Meng Haoran
1. Introduction to the poet:
Meng Haoran was born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with the courtesy name Haoran and the nickname Mengshan, from Xiangyang, Xiangzhou (now Xiangyang, Hubei). ), a famous landscape pastoral poet in the Tang Dynasty, known as "Meng Xiangyang" in the world. Because he had never been an official, he was also called "Mengshan Man". In his early years, he had ambitions to serve the world. After being embattled and disappointed in his official career, he was still able to respect himself, not to flatter the world, and cultivated Taoism and lived in seclusion for the rest of his life.
2. Appreciation of the work:
I sleep in spring without realizing the dawn, and hear the singing of birds everywhere. ——"Spring Dawn"
Appreciation: In the spring, I was so insatiable in sleeping that it was already dawn, and what disturbed my deep sleep was the chirping bird. The poet only expresses the vibrant scene of spring dawn with one sentence: "I hear birds singing everywhere". From this, people can know that it was the singing of these birds that woke up the poet from his lazy sleep. It can be imagined that there was a bright spring outside the house at this time.
3. Tao Yuanming
1. Introduction to the poet:
Tao Yuanming served as Jiangzhou Jijiu, Jianwei Army Joiner, Zhenjun Joiner Army, Pengze County Magistrate, etc. He served for the last time as the magistrate of Pengze County. He abandoned his post after more than eighty days and retired 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".
2. Appreciation of the work:
Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan Mountain. The mountain air is getting better day by day and the birds are flying back and forth. ——"Drinking Part 5"
Appreciation: Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely, the Nanshan Mountain in the distance comes into view. These four sentences describe the leisurely and contented manner in which the poet's spiritual world and natural scenery fit together after he retired to seclusion.