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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.

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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