On Yan Yanzhi's "A Commemorative Article for Tao Yuanming"

Yan Yanzhi's A commemorative article for Tao is a summary and evaluation of Tao Yuanming's whole life. Although Yan Yanzhi sometimes disagreed with Tao Yuanming and his literary creation, he can not forget Tao's natural and unrestrained mood. Tao's loving reading so much that he always forgot meal's time even though he could not understand the book deeply touched Yan. What's more, through the writing process of A Commemorative Article for Tao Yuanming, we can have a further understanding of Yan's emotional experience, official career, and writing style and pursuit of that time. Yan's spiritual and literary characteristics are also displayed from this commemorative article.