| A relevant subject in ancient Chinese literature is Tang Han' s annotation of "Tao YuanMing' s Poetry," which is concurrent with Vietnamese literature studies.The dissertation is organized as follows:The first chapter begins with an overview and brief explanation of Tang Han' s thinking, life and work. The Tao YuanMing' s poetry notes by Tang Han is very well known and popular for those people who study Taoyuanming. However, most information on Tang Han' s personal life is not well known, and is in fact contradictory. This chapter mainly focuses on Tang Han' s life and work by using information from the Song, Yuan, Ming ages. As the result, Tang Han is not only an erudite Confucian scholar, but also a Mandarin Chinese of integrity. Therefore, we can say that Tang Han was a good example of a well-known, educated individual in ancient China. Three different philosophic principles combined by Tang Han became his unique point of view during his time, which was key to his effectiveness in discussing Tao YuanMing' s poems.The second chapter introduces the reader to all information relevant to Tao YuanMing' s poetry, as noted by Tang Han.The third chapter focuses on the way Tang Han discusses Tao YuanMing' s poems as clearly explained in Tao YuanMing' s works. (As revised, it states that because of extensive studies of Tao YuanMing' s poetry, most of Tang Han' s explanations are in a simple, concise format that still strongly supports the views he expresses about Tao YuanMing' s poems).In the fourth chapter, there is an explanation of the way that Tang Han discussed Tao YuanMing' s poem, "Liquor Talking" . The technique that Tang Han used was called"Proving poems by using historic literature." This method of proving poetry by using historic literature was used by many people in China over the years, but was only a simple summary of the writers' real life and work. Tang Han was the first person to use methods that utilize dialects that are suitable for discussing historic literary works, including Tao YuanMing' s poems. Besides encouraging readers understand Tao YuanMing' s political position, Tang Han also invented a new way to study ancient poetry using classical language in a way that related his era to modern times.In the fifth chapter, there is an evaluation of Tao YuanMing' s poem as studied by Tang Han. This is one of the first poetic works noted by Tang Han, which is also an introduction to Tang Han' s literary style. After its introduction, Tang Han' s notation of poetic style became a very important method of explaining and discussing Chinese classical poetry, which grows ever more graceful and perfect as time passes. |