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Exploration of Shangjing Gardens with Tao Yuanming's Poems

Lĭ Róng

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Tao Yuanming is one of the famous hermits in the history, and he was also the creator of Chinese pastoral poetry. Because of the political darkness, Tao Yuanming backed off to his hometown as a hermit when he was 41 years-old. In this time, he created many pastoral poems. In this article the poems of Tao Yuanming are analyzed and summarized to recur the Shangjing garden environment. Through these Tao Yuanming's idea about the unity of heaven and man and returning to nature is explored.

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Tao Yuanming is one of the famous hermits in the history, and he was also the creator of Chinese pastoral poetry. Because of the political darkness, Tao Yuanming backed off to his hometown as a hermit when he was 41 years-old. In this time, he created many pastoral poems. In this article the poems of Tao Yuanming are analyzed and summarized to recur the Shangjing garden environment. Through these Tao Yuanming's idea about the unity of heaven and man and returning to nature is explored.

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Tao Yuanming is one of the famous hermits in the history, and he was also the creator of Chinese pastoral poetry. Because of the political darkness, Tao Yuanming backed off to his hometown as a hermit when he was 41 years-old. In this time, he created many pastoral poems. In this article the poems of Tao Yuanming are analyzed and summarized to recur the Shangjing garden environment. Through these Tao Yuanming's idea about the unity of heaven and man and returning to nature is explored.

Key concepts: Poetry, Heaven, Landscape architecture, Art, Politics, Literature, Ecology, Biology

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