The Theory Of Tao Yuanming's Natural Thought And The Natural Beauty Of Tao's Poety

Xu Fuguan has ever said "In all ancient culture system of the world, no other one's culture, human and nature had represented such a coexisted like ancient Chinese."("China Art Spirit"). This is even obvious in the WeiJin era because of the explanation of the metaphysics focused around the Lao-Zhuang theory for the nature in that era, which also provided thinking resource to Tao Yuanming who was born in that era and gave him a thought of resisting facts and returning to nature. Following this thought, Tao Yuanming's poem shows his idealty to the nature, freedom and harmonious life in his lifetime. He made a point of keeping his individuality of nature, loved sight of nature, followed the order of nature. For the freedom, he resigned his officer, went back to the countryside, and enjoyed the freedom of rusticity. He paid much attention to show the harmonious thing between human and naturen and between human themselves. The thing of art that were described in Tao's poem was not only good word, but also have ture feeling. In the artistic sentiment and writing kill aspect, his poems are highly praised as well and influence the aftertime deeply.This paper is divided to five parts:The first part is preface. It introduces the magnum opus and research status of Tao theory from beginning of 20 th century to beginning of 21th ecnturyThe first chapter indicates the Tao thought is new nature thought. From the influence of rudaofo to Tao thought, we can be aware that the Tao thought is "New Nature" thought which is mentioned by Chen Yinke in his "The theory of Tao Yuanming's Natural Thtural"The second chapter presents Tao's nature thought, its artistic sentiment and value judgment under the Wei-Jin metaphysics. Tao Yuanming lived in Wei-Jin era when the metaphysics was very hot, Themetaphysics caused far-reaching influence to Tao's thought, based on the influence, he came into being gracious personality of upholding nature, this was also presented in his artistic sentiment and value judgment.The third chapter indicates Tao's poem is good at nature. This chapter will dicuss this issue from the following thress aspect: how lite it is, how ture it is and how inornate it isThe last part summarizes the status of Tao's peon as well as the influence to the poem creation of aftertime.