Abstract:
Nearly all literary critics agree that Tao Yuanming's literary and aesthetic view was to pursue a style of "pedestrianism", "naturalness" and "truthful straightforwardness" with "self-entertainment" as his ideal of literary writing. Actually, since he never attempted to evade society and politics, "pedestrianism" was merely one of Tao's externalizing means to desalinate his real purpose of writing. The essence of his aesthetic orientation of explicit pedestrianism and implicit miraculousness presents itself not only in his extremely high frequency of using the word "miraculousness" but also in his pastoralist, history-singing and heart-singing poems. Tao Yuanming's aesthetic orientation agreed with his belief in Confucianism, character of external modesty but internal resoluteness and his day of obscure speech.
