In life, should people pursue physical enjoyment or explore spiritual eternity? Life is like an illusion, empty in the first place and will eventually return to emptiness. So some people talk about the occult and wander between the mountains and rivers, while some people retreat to the forest spring and indulge in alcohol.
When you are drunk, you can forget your sorrows; when you are drunk, you will not worry about illusory fame and fortune. The poet even felt that he could feel a profound truth in his dreams. As the saying goes, there is a true meaning in this, and the desire to argue has forgotten. The following is a five-word poem by Tao Yuanming, insight into the true meaning of life, reaching the realm of transcendence from the world.
The beginning of the year of the year is the beginning of the ancient farmhouse
Wei Jin: Tao Yuanming
The first teacher has a legacy, and the way of worry is not to worry about poverty.
It is difficult to catch, and he wants to be diligent for a long time.
Bingqi rejoiced in the current affairs, and relieved Yan to persuade the farmers.
The flat domain is far away, and the good seedlings are also new.
Although I have not measured the years, I am glad to do a lot.
Farming sometimes stops, and the walkers don't care.
The sun enters the phase and returns, and the pot pulp is close to the neighbor.
The long chant covered the firewood door and talked about the people of Longmu.
Lu You once recalled that when he was young, he occasionally saw Tao Yuanming's poetry collection on the rattan bed, so he took it and read it, gladly knowing that the day and dusk, the family called for food, read the poetry Fang Le, and did not eat until the night.
When Tao Yuanming is mentioned, people must feel that he is the representative of the hermit, with a noble heart, indifferent to fame and fortune, and unwilling to merge with the world, and this poem reflects that Tao Yuanming is a loyal Confucian believer.
"The first teacher has a testament, and the way of worry is not to worry about poverty", this is the teaching of the saint, and he regarded it as the highest standard. He "turned to long-term diligence" because "it is difficult to catch the looking at the miao", "the walker has no questions", and finally "the long chant hides the firewood door and talks about the people of Longmu", which is just a helpless choice.
He remembered the simple and stable society of Fuxi and Shennong, praised Confucius's efforts to save the world, affirmed Confucius's temporary new achievements, and lamented that he was in an era when people's hearts were not ancient. In the era when Lao Zhuang was enshrined as a classic, Tao Yuanming actually shouted out for the deeply questioned Confucian Six Classics, which should have been a unique and strange act at the time.
His ideas are incompatible with the mainstream of the times, and the direction of the times is very different from his ideas, so he is deeply distressed. It is precisely because of this bitterness that he went into hiding and poured out his sorrows with wine, and his fundamental sorrow is the decline of Confucianism and the invisibility of the world of Datong.
From this point of view, Tao Yuanming is nothing more than a complete Confucian, and his retreat is by no means a Taoist rule of inaction and away from the world, but a creed of Da Ze being good to the world and the poor being alone. Since the reality is dark and the world is getting worse, he has no choice but to retreat to the second place and turn to the pursuit of his own personal moral purity.
There were many hermits in the Six Dynasties era, and being a hermit seemed to be a fashion, but among the famous people, tao Yuanming was probably the only one who really retreated. In the early days of his retreat, he may feel very painful, after all, the destruction of ideals is almost equivalent to the death of the spirit for a person with persistent pursuit.
He lamented that life has no roots, floating like a stranger to dust, thinking of the sun and the moon throwing people away, having the ambition not to be gained, thinking of this with sadness, and finally knowing that it cannot be quiet, it can be seen that at this time his heart is not calm, full of conflict. At the beginning, the pastoral life in Tao Yuanming's eyes did not have the romantic color of morning rejuvenation and absurdity, with a moon and a hoe, but later he transcended, saw the true meaning of life, and reached a transcendent realm.
When the poet was young, he was fierce and ambitious, and in his twilight years, he always had difficulty forgetting the world, and his famous passage "Peach Blossom Origin" expressed a vision of beauty, hoping to be able to support himself and enjoy himself. The poet's appearance is idyllic and quiet, but the heart is enthusiastic and unrestrained, and the reason why he later passively avoided the world and enjoyed himself in time was also a helpless move. The pure personality charm revealed by Tao Shi also provides a port for future generations to inhabit the body and mind.