Why does Tao Yuanming love chrysanthemums

Reason: Tao Yuanming is a hermit. Chrysanthemums mostly grow in remote places and don't look like anything else. And a hermit in a flower. Tao Yuanming is tired of the intrigue of officialdom and wants to retire to the mountains. Chrysanthemum symbolizes nobility, so Tao Yuanming has a special liking for chrysanthemum, so he also has the leisure of "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely"

Tao Yuanming's poems focus on expressing emotions and aspirations. His language, seemingly simple, is actually wonderful. In plain and mellow poems, there are warm feelings and a strong flavor of life. Tao Yuanming's five poems "Returning to the Garden" are the best or the best among the pastoral poems.

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Tao Yuanming, known as Mr. Jing Jie, was born in Chaisang, Xunyang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). A great poet and poet at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Southern Song Dynasty. 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".

Tao Yuanming has the largest number of pastoral poems and the highest achievements. This kind of poetry 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. His pastoral poetry, with its simple and natural language and lofty artistic conception, opened up a new world for China poetry and directly influenced the pastoral poetry school in Tang Dynasty. In his pastoral poems, his boredom with dirty reality and his love for quiet pastoral life can be seen everywhere.

Because of his actual labor experience, his poems are full of the joy of laborers, showing the thoughts and feelings that only laborers can feel. For example, the third poem "Returning to the Garden" is a powerful proof that this is the progress of his pastoral poetry.

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