Guiyuan Tianju (full poem)

Returning to the Garden is an essay written by Tao Yuanming, a writer in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China. The following is the full text, translation, relevant background and author's brief introduction:

Full text:

Few people do as the Romans do. Their nature is to love nature.

I sneaked into the official career network and have been away from the game for more than ten years.

Birds in cages are often attached to the forests of the past, and fish in ponds yearn for the abyss of the past.

I want to open up wasteland in Minamino and keep my humility to the fields.

The house is surrounded by about ten acres of land, thatched cottages.

Willow trees cover the eaves, and peach trees cover Li Lieman in front of the hospital.

The neighboring village of the neighboring village is faintly visible, and there is smoke in the village.

Several dogs barked in the alley, and the mulberry tree was barked by a rooster.

There is no dust and sundries in the yard, and the quiet room is comfortable and leisurely.

Trapped in a cage without freedom for a long time, I finally returned to the forest today.

Translation:

When I was young, I didn't pursue secular fashion. I love Shan Ye by nature.

It's been thirty years since I accidentally fell into the dust net.

The resident bird yearns for the old forest, and the pond fish misses the abyss of the past.

I recovered the land in Ye Nan and guarded the garden where stupidity came back.

Fiona Fang has more than ten acres of houses and 89 thatched cottages.

The elm willow covers the back eaves, and the peach blossom and plum blossom stand in front of the hall.

The village in the distance is filled with fuzzy smoke, and the market is reluctant to go.

Dogs bark in deep alleys and mulberry chickens crow.

There is no dust flying in the yard at home, and there is a lot of leisure in the empty room.

Staying in a cage for a long time finally paid off naturally.

Source:

Guiyuanju is from Tao Yuanming's prose collection Biography of Mr. Wuliu. Tao Yuanming was a writer, politician and agronomist in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He is famous for his fresh and elegant writing style and his love for country life. His works often express the yearning and pursuit of nature and truth.

Creative background:

At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tao Yuanming was exiled and suffered many times because of political turmoil and war. Later, he gave up worldly fame and power and chose to retire to the countryside. Returning to the garden is what he saw and felt after retiring to the countryside, expressing his love for nature and quiet life.

Use environment:

Returning to the Garden depicts Tao Yuanming's life attitude of returning to nature and shows his yearning for rural life. This work is widely read, quoted and appreciated, especially in the ancient literature of China. It is very poetic, expressing profound thoughts on nature, life and human nature, and also giving people inspiration and reflection.

About the author:

Tao Yuanming (about 365-428), with a distinctive personality, was a wild fox Zen master, a writer, politician, agronomist and hermit from the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, and was regarded as one of the greatest pastoral poets in the history of China literature. He is famous for his fresh and natural poetic style and his unique understanding of nature, homesickness and life.

Tao Yuanming was a politician in his early years, but because he was disappointed with political corruption and social darkness, he gave up his official position and chose to live in seclusion in the countryside. His pastoral life is not only close to nature, but also an avoidance and protest against social reality. Through the creation of pastoral poems, he expressed his love for nature, his boredom with worldly troubles, and his pursuit of inner peace and true self.

Tao Yuanming's poems take the description of nature as the theme, landscapes, flowers and birds, four seasons and other elements as the theme, and they are expressed in the form of singing about history, singing about the past and nostalgia for the past. His poetic style is fresh and lively, his language is concise and pleasant, and his thoughts are profound and profound, giving people a sense of pleasure and peace, which is known as "the wind of Tao Yuanming".