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Tao Yuanming

Type Figure Region Xunyang Chaisang Time 365–427 Also known as Tao Qian、Master of Five Willows、Master Jingjie

Tao Yuanming (365–427), courtesy name Yuanming, was a famous poet of the late Eastern Jin and early Liu Song, who resigned as magistrate of Pengze ra…

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  1. 393–405Xunyang Chaisang · JiangxiFrom a declining gentry family, in his youth he served as registrar of Jiangzhou and magistrate of Pengze, repeatedly frustrated in officialdom and growing weary of its darkness.
  2. 405–415Pengze · JiangxiServing as magistrate of Pengze for just over eighty days, when the commandery inspector came on tour he refused to humble himself before the powerful, resolutely resigned, wrote Returning Home to declare his intent, and returned to his homeland.
  3. 415–427Xunyang Chaisang · JiangxiLiving in reclusion at Chaisang, farming for his own sustenance, amusing himself with poetry and wine, he created Peach Blossom Spring and the twenty poems of Drinking, depicting an ideal pastoral life and laying the foundation of the pastoral poetry school.

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