Poetry,Tao Yuanming,and Wine

Tao Yuanming is the first poet in Chinese literary history who writes much about drinking and establishes close and important relations between wine and poets' spiritual life.Influenced by the bibulous fashion of the time,Tao pursues,through drinking,the freedom of mind and the release of anxiety and misery,and enjoys the infinite fun and comfort therein.With his sincere personality and poetic talent,he attains the perfect combination of poetry and wine,characterized by his description of drinking and allegorical association of wine in many of his poems.This excellent integration naturally displays Tao's profound,real state of life,thereby endowing his poems with a unique aesthetical height.