Wine is an important sentiment in the life of Chinese poets, especially Tao Yuanming, who "drinks wine in front of his shadow, and happily cooks garden vegetables" using the wine in his poems as a clue.

life in the fields.

Pastoral Feelings Tao Yuanming Compared with the lively scene of Wang Xizhi at the "Lanting" when he was forty-seven, there were as many as forty people "cultivating" and "composing poems" together, Tao Yuanming (365 (Yichou) - 27

4) When I abandoned my official position and returned to my hometown at the age of forty, I often only had the peace and quiet of drinking wine alone behind closed doors. Of course it was very different!

Wang Xizhi's calligraphy achievements are unparalleled.

He likes geese, not that he likes to eat goose meat.

Later generations thought that he was inspired to use his wrists to write by observing the whole body movements of "geese"; Bao Shichen, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, said: "When the whole body is full of energy, the two feet should be settled first when setting the platform. Enlightenment into the flock of geese"

"Only when you move the water can you realize that it is difficult for all five fingers to work together." The "Preface to the Lanting Collection" written by Wang Xizhi when he was fifty-one years old is his masterpiece in terms of writing and calligraphy; the original has already become the treasure of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

The burial objects make future generations sigh!

After Wang Xizhi left officialdom at the age of forty-nine, he first traveled around and then returned home to plant fruit trees and spend his old age surrounded by his descendants.

Given Wang Xizhi's noble background, this will certainly not surprise anyone.

Tao Yuanming was born four years after Wang Xi's death. Although he had a good family background, he did not belong to the two surnames of Wang and Xie. In addition, he loved nature by nature, so he resolutely gave up his post as magistrate of Pengze County in his prime and returned to his hometown.

He began to cultivate the pastoral life for more than 20 years, and was respected as the ancestor of pastoral poets and reclusive poets.

In the autumn when he was about fifty-three or four years old, he wrote a set of twenty poems about "drinking". In addition, many other poems were written about wine, which made later generations believe that his poems "have wine in them."

Xiao Tong, the prince of the Zhaoming Dynasty in the Liang Dynasty, said: "There is a doubt that wine is involved in Tao Yuanming's poems. I think his intention is not in wine, but in wine as a trace." And these twenty "drinking poems" have also become the basis for later generations to observe his pastoral.

Important clues to feelings.

Xiao Tong, who was naturally fond of wine and composed drinking poems, said in the "Preface to the Collected Works of Tao Yuanming" that Tao Yuanming "sent wine as a trace", but in "The Biography of Tao Yuanming" he also said that when Tao Yuanming became the magistrate of Pengze County, "he made two hectares and fifty

One acre is planted to seedlings, and fifty acres is planted to rice." Tao Yuanming reluctantly became an official because of his poverty, but he planted five-sixths of the public land with glutinous rice suitable for wine making.

He said more bluntly in "The Biography of Mr. Wu Liu": "Sex is addicted to alcohol."

He just likes to drink, so why use alcohol to cover up anything?

However, since he abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown, he returned to the poverty of "farming is not enough to support himself". Where can he get wine?

We can reasonably speculate: 1. Plant your own crops and make your own wine (drink wine).

2. Inviting relatives to drink or sending wine: He said: "My family is poor and I cannot often get (wine). If I know this, I might buy some wine and invite it." ("The Biography of Mr. Wu Liu"), "Old friends appreciate me.

” ("Drinking" Chapter 16) "The old man gave me the remaining wine, saying that he would become immortal after drinking." ("Drinking Alone in the Rain") 3. Good friends gave money for wine: When Yan Yanzhi took up his new post,

After passing through Xunyang, I went to drink with him every day; when I left, I left 20,000 yuan.

Tao Yuanming put all the money in the restaurant as drink money and slowly went to get the wine.

("Biography of Tao Yuanming") 4. Wang Hong, the governor of Jiangzhou at that time, wanted to make friends with Yuanming and kept sending him wine.

("Biography of Tao Yuanming") Therefore, although Tao Yuanming could not often get wine, he had many opportunities to drink, so there are many "wines" in the poems.

Let's first look at the famous "Preface to Drinking Poems" and some other poems: "Preface to Drinking Poems" says: "I am living in leisure with few pleasures, and the autumn nights are long. Occasionally there is a famous wine, and I drink it all night long. I look at the shadow all alone, and suddenly I can't return to it.

Drunk. After I was drunk, I wrote a few sentences to amuse myself. There was a lot of paper and ink, and the words were incomprehensible. I wrote them about old friends, thinking that I would laugh." Seven of the twenty poems talked about drinking.