A Study On The Psychology Of Bai Juyi 's Pottery

Tao Yuanming is a recluse, but also a poet. The attention on Tao Yuanming begins in the identity of the recluse, with his literature can be recognized, his poetry are accepted. Later on the study and imitation of Tao Yuanming is from the recluse to his poetry, finally people pay more attention to his personality and literature, to get the spirit of Tao Yuanming. Bai Juyi describes himself as "Tao Yuanliang in another times", he comprehensively studies Tao Yuanming earlier in the Tang Dynasty, to get the spirit of Tao Yuanming, with inheritance and development, lays the foundation for the study and imitation of Tao Yuanming.The paper focuses on the study of Bai Juyi in Tao Yuanming’s study and imitation, aimed at a comprehensive understand of Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming. The paper is mainly divided into four parts:The first part mainly discusses the formation of Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming through experiences of Bai Juyi. There is a great relationship between his experiences and the formation and development of his mentality learned from Tao Yuanming. Making YuanHe six years(811) and YuanHe fifiteen years(820) the boundary, dividing Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming into early, mid and late time. Attention on Tao Yuanming and learning from Tao Yuanming is because his fun in his life in early time. Tao Yuanming becomes Bai Juyi’s comport in mid time. Especially he comprehensively accepts Tao Yuanming between Xiagui for his mother’s death and Jiangzhou for demotion. Bai Juyi puts the spirit of Tao Yuanming into his officialdom career in late time, a affluent life, a smooth career, Tao Yuanming becomes a interest of his leisure life.The second part mainly discusses Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming in officialdom. Tao Yuanming chooses to keep his noble character in the pastoral. Bai Juyi chooses in the officialdom under the guidance of his reclusive thought, body working while heart having a good rest, Bai Juyi puts pastoral into officialdom, which develops the reclusive mind of Tao Yuanming. In the pastoral, Tao Yuanming chooses to farm to live, do everything by himself. Bai Juyi decides to farm, which learns from Tao Yuanming, because a lot of reasons, the practice about farm is limited, so he is also regret. In addition, Tao Yuanming learns from famous recluses to firm his reclusive faith, Bai Juyi also does it in the officialdom by learning from Tao Yuanming.The third part mainly discusses Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming in drinking. Drinking is an important part in Tao Yuanming’s life. As we all know, Tao Yuanming likes drinking, he drinks frankly, making trouble away and understanding the life, in addition, he firms his reclusive faith by drinking. Bai Juyi learns from Tao Yuanming to drink, his drinking is not only in the form, that is to say, drink frankly, he pays more attention to the spirit of drinking of Tao Yuanming, such as making trouble away, knowing more about the life and the fate, so drinking becomes a necessary part of his life.The fourth part is the deviation from Tao Yuanming, which is a complement to Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming. Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming is not a simple copy and repeat completely of Tao Yuanming, which is not the representation of history. There is a big difference between Tao Yuanming and Bai Juyi, because Bai Juyi is secular, which is inevitable. On the one hand, Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming is in rich, because his reclusive thought, the monthly salary is the guarantee of his material life, compared with the poor Tao Yuanming, he can really be called "rich". On the other hand, Bai Juyi’s mentality learned from Tao Yuanming is in entertainment, he develops Tao Yuanming’s "happy" to a kind of "entertainment", he has a certain entertainment mentality, which is not from Tao Yuanming. There is a deviation from Tao Yuanming, so Bai Juyi can not be called Tao Yuanming in the pastora.