The similarities and differences between Xie Lingyun and Tao Yuanming s poetry

Romantic spirituality, and rural seclusion.

Eastern jin. Poet Tao Yuanming.

He founded the Pastoral Poetry School, and the poet Xie Lingyun from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty created the Landscape Poetry School on the basis of inheriting Tao Yuanming's poetic style. Compared with the pastoral poetry school, the landscape poetry school added the poet's imagination while describing the natural scenery, presenting a poetic nature. In addition, Xie Lingyun's landscape poems pursued the battle of puppets and puppets, which laid the foundation for the emergence of Qi Yongming style poetry in the Southern Dynasty, and also indirectly promoted the development of modern style poetry (i.e., rhythmic poetry) in the Tang Dynasty.

Although Tao Yuanming was born in the descendants of the aristocracy, but by the time of Tao Yuanming, his family had been reduced to the "bottle without storage of millet" of the Shu family, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a society that valued the door valve, he always had ambitions not to stretch, and was unwilling to surrender his will to be a warlord minions, and refused to change his nature to adapt to the world, so he broke with the official career, and was happy to be poor, which reflected the Confucian idea of "being good alone", and also showed the influence of Taoism's "independence from the world" thought on Tao Yuanming; He took his own pastoral life as the content, truly wrote about the sweetness and hardship of ploughing, and expressed his indifference to fame and fortune, and as a scholar, he personally participated in farming and wrote about his farming experience with poems, Tao Yuanming was the first. Xie Lingyun was born in the scholar clan and was the grandson of Xie Xuan, a famous general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Since he was a child, he lived in his hometown of Huiji Dongshan, which attracted him to seek mountains and wade through rivers, and he believed in Taoism and Buddhism, and most of the Buddhist retreats were in the deep mountains and valleys, integrating with nature.

Xie Lingyun had a strong sense of being a politician, but he didn't want to be a writer. But in his career, Xie Lingyun is a frustrated person. So he sent his thoughts on the landscape, feasting slowly to cover up his enthusiasm for power, and at the same time helplessly comforted himself with Lao Zhuang's thoughts, Xie Lingyun in addition to landscape poems, but also wrote idyllic poems and poems that expressed villa life, revealing the idea of nostalgia for the ancestors of the family, and mostly rendered through Xuanyan.

2. Ideological tendencies.

In terms of ideological tendencies, Tao Yuanming's thought is still controversial, and Confucianism and Taoism are embodied, but on the whole, it does not deviate from the ideological characteristics of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and adheres to a new view of nature that has been transformed by Wei and Jin metaphysics. Chen Yinke called it "Confucianism on the outside and Taoism on the inside". The Confucian part is mainly reflected in the personality of Nachang who is stubborn and poor and observes festivals.

When chaos and killing, betrayal and conspiracy became the main themes of the times, adopting a non-cooperative attitude was a kind of protection of self-discipline and a defense of Confucian values. Therefore, he repeatedly praised "moderation", "solidification of poverty", and "righteousness", and used this to motivate himself. The metaphysical part is mainly manifested in the life attitude of facing life and death, the life attitude of rebirth and the life attitude of adaptability and fidelity.

In the face of the impermanence of life, metaphysics believes that life and death are natural changes, from non-birth to existence, from existence to non-existence, all of which are natural. Tao Yuanming upholds this view. Commissioned Dahua, that is, "talking about multiplication to return to the end" in "Words of Return", calmly embraces life and welcomes death indifferently.

Returning to the countryside is a manifestation of Tao Yuan's adaptability and true ecology. "There is no vulgar rhyme, and sex loves hills and mountains", in Tao Yuanming's view, nature is his nature. The poet's natural nature can be revealed and developed, he can walk willfully, and he can fit in with nature, which achieves the "truth", such as "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan".