陶淵明

Táo Yuānmíng 陶淵明

Eastern-Jìn poet (365–427), also called Táo Qián 陶潛. Foundational figure of Chinese reclusive-poetry; archetypal model of the literatus who withdraws from official service to a rustic pastoral life. His celebration of wine, fields, chrysanthemums, and the “return-home” theme established a poetic vocabulary that pervaded subsequent Chinese reclusive and Buddhist-leaning literary traditions.