Tao Yuanming, whose name is Yuan Liang and Mr. Wuliu, is a famous poet and essayist from the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty in China, and the founder of pastoral poetry in China.
His poems are based on natural scenery and pastoral life, with sincere emotions and far-reaching artistic conceptions, expressing his yearning for freedom and nature and his reflection on social reality.
Among Tao Yuanming's works, "Drinking Its Five" and "Returning to the Garden" are the most well-known, and the following will be a detailed appreciation of these two poems.
"Drinking Its Five" is a five-character ancient poem by Tao Yuanming.
The knot is in the human realm, and there is no noise of cars and horses.
How can you ask you? The heart is far away from itself.
Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see the South Mountain.
The mountain weather is good, and the birds are returning.
There is a true meaning in this, and I have forgotten to distinguish it.
This poem expresses Tao Yuanming's unique views on life and his pursuit of freedom and nature.
By depicting natural scenery and pastoral life, the poem shows Tao Yuanming's transcendent realm and yearning for nature.
Among them, "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan" is one of Tao Yuanming's most praised poems, which depicts the poet picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, inadvertently looking at the beautiful scenery of Nanshan, expressing the poet's love and yearning for nature.
At the same time, "there is a true meaning in this, and I have forgotten to distinguish it" expresses the poet's philosophical thinking on life and the attitude of pursuing true meaning.
"Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Home" is also a famous poem by Tao Yuanming.
Planting beans in the south of the mountain, the grass is full of bean seedlings.
Morningside is desolate, and returns with the moon and lotus.
The road is narrow and the grass and trees are long, and the evening dew stains my clothes.
It is not a pity to stain the clothes, but the wish is not violated.
This poem depicts Tao Yuanming's life and state of mind after returning to the countryside, expressing his yearning for freedom and nature and his thoughts on life.
In the poem, by depicting the scenes of pastoral life such as planting beans, managing desolation, and hoeing with the moon, Tao Yuanming shows Tao Yuanming's life attitude of integrating with nature and having no quarrel with the world.
At the same time, "the road is narrow and the grass and trees are long, and the sunset dew stains my clothes" expresses the poet's awe and love for nature. The whole poem is sincere in emotion and far-reaching in artistic conception, and it is one of Tao Yuanming's representative works of poetry.
Through the appreciation and analysis of the two poems "Drinking the Five" and "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Home", we can gain an in-depth understanding of Tao Yuanming's poetic style and ideological connotation.
Tao Yuanming's poems take natural scenery and pastoral life as the theme, with sincere emotions and far-reaching artistic conceptions, expressing his yearning for freedom and nature and his reflection on social reality.