In ancient China, many outstanding poets appeared, and they showed the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation with their outstanding artistic creations. Their artistic treasures, each with different styles, make no one replace them, no one dislikes them, and give us the enjoyment of beauty. Tao Yuanming is such a unique poet.
He was born in idyllic poetry, was the founding father of idyllic poetry, and opened a unique idyllic school in the Chinese poetry scene. From him onwards, all those who wrote idyllic poems were not unaffected by him. His highly accomplished pastoral poems can be said to be the treasures in the field of chinese poetry. What I mean is to talk about his idylls, about his artistic achievements and styles. However, these contents are combined with Tao Yuanming, and it can be said that if you do not understand the characteristics of Tao Yuanming, it is difficult to appreciate the mystery of his poetry, so I have to introduce Tao Yuanming and his person in a small way.
There was a famous poet Meng Haoran in the Tang Dynasty, who was one of the representatives of landscape poetry in the Tang Dynasty. Once, in the early summer season, he returned to his rural South Garden, and then wrote a letter to his elder brother in the city, probably in his own countryside to understand the joy of Tao Yuanming's idyllic poetry, and sincerely expressed his admiration. He says in the poem
Try to read the biography of Gao Shi, the most Jia Tao Zhengjun.
Ri Yu is idyllic and calls himself the Emperor of Xi
The Biography of Gao Shi refers to the ancient hermit Gao Ren. Tao Zhengjun, in ancient times, called those who refused to be recruited as Zhengshi. Tao Yuanming had refused to be recruited many times, so he was also a recruit, and his name was Zhengjun to show honorific title. Tao Yuanming hid in the fun of the countryside all day long, which was the common people of the ancient era of Fuxi. It is worth noting here that tao Yuanming's fascination with pastoral fun is the meaning and fun of pastoral life.
And this kind of fun is associated with the Xihuang people, that is, the ancient life situation is connected. Tao Yuanming lived in the late Jin Dynasty and early Song Dynasty, but he closed himself in a pastoral garden and created a living world. There lived an ancient life, this is Tao Yuanming. Meng Haoran said that Tao Yuanming was a Xi Emperor, not Meng Haoran's contrivance, but Tao Yuanming's self-description. Tao Yuanming in a letter to his sons
"It is often said that in the middle of May and June, the north window lies down, and when the cool breeze temporarily arrives, he claims to be the emperor of xi."
In the summer of May and June, lying by the north-facing window, a cool breeze struck, refreshing, as if returning to the life of the Xi Emperor.
In the "Biography of Mr. Goyanagi", it is also said that in the situation of his return to the pastoral life, it is also said that "the poetry of the title is given to the poet, in order to enjoy his aspirations, and there is no people of the Huai clan?" The People of Gu tianshi? "
That is to say, drinking wine and chanting poetry, having fun in it, just like the people of the No Huai Clan Ge Tianshi. Whether Tao Yuanming is an ancient people, whether he is a Xihuang people, or a people without huaishi Ge Tianshi, he is not a nearby people.
Why did Tao Yuanming go beyond his own time, create an idyllic world of life, and be an ancient people? In fact, Tao Yuanming's ambitions are ambitious. Like ordinary intellectuals, he once wanted to do something, but the era in which he lived was dark and too muddy, and at the end of the Jin Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, that is, the Jin Dynasty was about to perish, the new dynasty changed, and the internal struggle of the ruling class was very fierce. All this made Tao Yuanming discouraged, so he did not come out very late at the beginning, and when he was nearly middle-aged, he also went in and out several times, saw through the dark struggle in the official field, and finally dismissed the official and returned to the countryside, never to go out of the mountains again.