On Tao Yuanming
by Wei Gengyuan
About This Novel
The discussion about Tao Yuanming is a hot topic in the study of medieval literature, and there are many monographs on it. "Treatise on Tao Yuanming" starts from the perspective of doctrine, diction, and textual research. The content of the discussion involves: Tao Yuanming's thoughts and political attitudes, reflections on the "plain and natural" main style of Tao's poems, the aesthetic tendency of Tao's poems that are both superficial and strange at the same time, and the structural characteristics of Tao's poems. The tendency of prose culture, the unique and exquisite language features, the themes of important poems, essays and poems, Tao's poems inheriting Qu Yuan and embodying the aesthetic style of the Eastern Jin Dynasty together with Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, Tao Ji's self-made new words and the examination of difficult words not included in the dictionary, etc. "Treatise on Tao Yuanming" is divided into six parts and twenty chapters. It discusses from multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary theoretical approaches such as poetic aesthetics, criticism of Tao poetry, and the spread of Tao poetry, calligraphy and painting, presenting a new look that is different from previous research. This book was originally written by Wei Geng.
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