Tao Yuanming

Hailing from a noble family in poverty. Born in the territory of the current province of Jiangxi . He served in minor official positions. At the age of forty, having survived the death of his beloved sister and becoming disillusioned with the world, he left the service, retired to the wilderness and engaged in rural labor. He spent more than 20 years alone (This information has been disproved by many modern scientists, because it is impossible to do farming alone with such a huge family and at the same time be creative). In the VI century, he was called "the ancestor of all hermit poets from antiquity to the present day."

About 160 poems of the poet have been preserved. The main motive of Tao Yuanming's work is a departure from the world, a cycle of poems “Returned to Gardens and Fields”, an essay in poems and prose “Home to Yourself” is dedicated to this. One of his most famous prose works is the utopia of perfect life, The Peach Spring ( en: The Peach Blossom Spring ).

The poet is also credited with a collection of prose stories and short stories, "Continuation of Notes on the Search for Spirits" (beginning of the 5th century AD), supplementing the Notes on the Search for Spirits of the 4th century historian Gan Bao .

• Leonid Desyatnikov . Three Songs to Poems by Tao Yuanming for Voice and Piano (1974).

• Lyrics, foreword and per. L. Eidlin, M., 1964.
• Autumn chrysanthemum: poems by Tao Yuan-ming (IV – V centuries). St. Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2000
• Eidlin L. 3. Tao Yuan-ming and his poems. M., 1967.
• Eidlin L. 3. On the history of the development of Chinese literature in the 3rd – 13th centuries. - In: Study of Chinese literature in the USSR. M., 1973, p. 349-381.
• Aidlin L. 3. Tang poetry: Essay. —In the book: Literature of the Peoples of the East. — M., 1970.
• History of World Literature: in 9 vols. –T.2– M., 1984. – p. 102–104.
• Poets of China and Vietnam. - M., 1986 - S. 9-15

• Eidlin L. Tao Yuan-ming and his poems. M .: Nauka, 1967