Tao Yuanming is the most serious ancient scholar who pondered the value and significance of life and realized the truth of life in the history of China. The chaos and collapse of spiritual values brought about by the chaotic times of the Six Dynasties made scholars generally indulge their sensibility and unrestrained, and squandered their lives in a free and easy way.
Tao Yuanming got rid of the shackles of life problems such as poverty and attainment, poverty and wealth, official and seclusion, life and death, and realized spiritual freedom and self-transcendence. He wrote his life as a poem and presented it in a poetic way. His life, thought, spirit and life consciousness are perfectly presented in his poems, and poetry and life are integrated. In other words, Tao Yuanming is a man who lives poetically. He lives in poems, and his poems present his life state. His realm of life is between Confucianism and Taoism.
Returning to the Garden is a group of poems. Written in the second year after Peng returned to the field. The first song: narrate the lifelong interest, describe the simplicity and loveliness of the countryside, and express the relaxed mood of getting rid of the dust net; The second song: write to break up with the secular, get rid of secular distractions, care about farming, and show friendship with Tian Ye; The third song: the working life of going out early and returning late reveals the love and cherish for seclusion; The fourth song: I wrote about roaming the countryside with my nephew, but I saw the ruins and lamented the changes of the world.
Brief introduction of Tao Yuanming
Tao Yuanming (about 365-427) is a famous and intelligent figure, nicknamed Mr. Wu Liu, and is known as Mr. Jing Jie in the world. One is from Xunyang County (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province) and the other is from Yifeng, Jiangxi Province. He was an outstanding poet, lyricist and essayist at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Liu Song Dynasty.
Tao Yuanming served as Jiangzhou drinking sacrifice, Jianwei joining the army, Zhenjun joining the army, and pengze county's order. His last official position was Pengze county magistrate, who left his post for more than 80 days and then retired to the countryside. He is the first landscape pastoral poet in China, and is known as "ancient and modern recluse poetry school", "recluse poetry school" and "the originator of landscape pastoral poetry school". Tao Yuanming's works include Drinking, Peach Blossom Garden, Hui Xi Ci, Biography of Mr. Wuliu, etc. He is the first literary master in Jiangxi.