Tao Yuanming was an outstanding poet, lyricist and essayist at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Liu Song Dynasty. Known as "hermit poetry school" and "the originator of pastoral poetry", he is the first literary master in Jiangxi.
He served as Jiangzhou Wine Sacrifice, Jianwei Army, Zhenjun, and Pengze County Order, and the last official position was Pengze County Order. He left his post for more than 80 days and retired to the countryside. He is the first landscape pastoral poet in China, and is known as "the ancestor of hermit poets in ancient and modern times?" , there is "Tao Yuanming Collection".
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Tao Yuanming has the largest number of pastoral poems and the highest achievements, which fully shows the poet's noble integrity in keeping his ambition. It fully shows the poet's love for simple pastoral life, his understanding of labor and his friendly feelings for working people.
It fully shows the poet's pursuit and yearning for the ideal world. As a scholar-bureaucrat, such thoughts, feelings and contents are unprecedented in the history of literature, especially in a society with strict gate system and concept.
Some of Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems also reflect his predicament in his later years, which can help readers indirectly understand the miserable life of the peasant class at that time. Tao Yuanming is the pioneer of pastoral poetry.