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    T'ao Ch'ien, or Tao Qian, also sometimes called T'ao Yuan-ming, was born in the Kiangsi district of China, into a family of modest wealth. But as he was growing up, the family income declined. As a ung man, he failed in his attempts to get a decent government position, so T'ao Ch'ien retired to the life of a poor gentleman farmer.

    His poetry suggests that, despite his ämne hardships (in one poem T'ao Ch'ien describes having to beg for food) and political turmoils, he seems to have cultivated a melancholy sort of contentment in his life.

    His writing shows a deep communion with nature, helping to open the way for the great kinesisk nature poets centuries later during the Tang dynasty. Chrysanthemums often appear in his poems.

    T'ao Ch'ien exhibits a deeply philosophical natur in his poetry. He had Taoist and Buddhist leanings, including among his friends monks of the White Lotus Society, an early kultur of Ch'an Buddhism.

    In addition to themes of natur, T'ao Chien is also kn
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    Ch'ien, T'ao

    BORN: 365, China

    DIED: 427, China

    NATIONALITY: Chinese

    GENRE: Poetry

    MAJOR WORKS:
    Poetic Works (1883)
    T'ao the Hermit: Sixty Poems (1952)
    Works (1956)

    Overview

    Also known as Qian Tao or Ch'ien T'ao, T'ao Yüan-ming T'ao Ch'ien was one of China's foremost poets in the five-word shih style. He was not recognized as a major poet until the T'ang dynasty (618–907). By the Song times (960–1279), however, his status as one of China's greatest lyrical poets had become generally recognized, and his poetry has never ceased to fascinate the Chinese since.

    Works in Biographical and Historical Context

    A Secluded Life T'ao Ch'ien lived during the Eastern Chin and Liu Sung dynasties of the fourth and fifth centuries. He was born in Ch'ai-sang in present-day Kiangsi Province, the great-grandson of T'ao K'an, a famed Chin general. Both his grandfather and father had served as prefects, but by T'ao Ch'ien's time the family must have become poorer, a

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    Tao Yuanming

    Chinese poet (365–427)

    This article is about the Eastern Jin poet. For the Eastern Han warlord, see Tao Qian (Han dynasty).

    In this Chinese name, the family name is Tao.

    Tao Yuanming (365–427), also known as Tao Qian, courtesy nameYuanliang (元亮), was a Chinese poet and politician. He was one of the best-known poets who lived during the Six Dynasties period. Tao Yuanming spent much of his life in reclusion, living in the countryside, farming, reading, drinking wine, receiving the occasional guest, and writing poems in which he reflected on the pleasures and difficulties of life and his decision to withdraw from civil service. Tao's simple and direct style was somewhat at odds with the norms for literary writing in his time.[1] In the Tang dynasty, he was well known as a recluse. During the Northern Song dynasty, influential literati figures such as Su Shi declared him a paragon of authenticity and spontaneity in poetry, predicting that he would ac