Title: From the spiritual Wander to the Poetic Existence-On the Final Construction of the spiritual Home of the Scholar Officials by TAO Yuan-ming in China
Abstract: The spiritual home of the scholar officials before Wei, Jin and the Northern and Southern dynasties was dimly discernible. It remained so till ZHANG Heng wrote his Ode to Returning to Farm.His description of his spiritual home left people a distinct impression. But ZHANG Heng did not return to the farming land. TAO Yuan_ming, who lived around the period of Jin and Song dynasties, in farmers' clothes but with scholars' elegance, tried farming in the Southern Hills, and wrote poems among the gullies and valleys. He finished the final and the most practical construction of the spiritual home. But, in later generations, it developed in a direction of elegance and magnificence, which was beyond the reach of ordinary scholar officials. Gradually,the primary features of the spiritual home faded. That was the dissimilation and loss of the spiritual home.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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