Research On The Thought Of Tao Yuanming And The Theme Of His Ci-fu

Taking TaoYuanming’s three pieces of Ci-fu as a comparison, based on the previous research achievements, the thesis explores their own themes, their respective literary culture origin, as well as the inner links among these three pieces, by analyzing and discussing TaoYuanMing’s three pieces of Ci-fu from four aspects.Tao Yuanming was born in a poor family, though his great grandfather was once riding high. His family came down in the world from his generation, going from bad to worse.In the Eastern Jin dynasty, when good lineage was of great importance,TaoYuanming’s tragic fate was doomed due to his humble birth and the chaotic world of darkness — having unrecognized talent but no opportunity to use it. Deeply influenced by Confucian thought, although he was officials for several times on and off, but being extremely anguished, he eventually resigned. After his failure in the official career, he had no alternative but to take up writing and farming, yet his deep tragic consciousness is exposed naturally in his litrary works, which is where to understand TaoYuanming’s three themes and the essential points between the lines.Rhapsodies of Having Unrecognized Talent expresses Tao’s sorrowful grief for having no opportunity to use his talent. Compared with the previous work on the same topic, the main difference between them is the innovation of the author’s appeal and aspirations and the way of relaxation. The historic phenomenon that the talented person could not encounter a superior who understood him inevitably results from the Chinese feudal autocratic country, and of course, and the talented person himself was also attributed to it..Rhapsodies of Leisure gives rise to controversy in academic circles. Combining traditional metaphor tactics, using the literature metaphor mode of the gentleman’s pursuing tragic beauty, referring to the transience of beauty and the historical foreordination in life, thus this rhapsody gains the eternal philosophical character.Although it belongs to the former generations’ simulation work, it is unique and unparalleled, so it establishes the model status in the same topic.Going Home is Tao Yuanming’s iconic assignment. This rhapsody, through TaoYuanming’s poetic depiction, declares his final attitude of the ultimate life turning after his five official failures and three retirements, which stemmed form Zhang Heng’s Rhapsodies of Returning to Rural Life, but Tao changes and develops it a bit more. It is a poetic rendering of Tao Yuanming’s mind map, which establishes the paradigm of the rural life.Three rhapsodies constitute TaoYuanming’s mind journal in turn, who eventually gives up his career and returns to the nature, and change his ambition from the official road to the text on the basis of three-dimensional level, which renders as the mind pictures and the cultural footnotes of the author under the influence of the interwoven reactions, and develops a kind of discourse on rural landscapes, which echoes and supplements each other.