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    Tao Yuanming (simplified Chinese: 陶渊明; traditional Chinese: 陶淵明; pinyin: Táo Yuānmíng; 365–427), also known as Tao Qian (pinyin: Táo Qián; also T'ao Ch'ien...
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  • Tao Qian is the name of: Tao Qian (Han dynasty) (132–194), governor of Xu province during the late Han dynasty Tao Yuanming (365–427), Jin dynasty poet...
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    Chinese proverb which refers to the image that the three men, Huiyuan, Tao Yuanming and Lu Xiujing laugh together when arriving at Huxi (虎溪, Tiger Brook)...
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    Blossom Spring Story or The Peach Blossom Land was a fable written by Tao Yuanming in 421 CE about a chance discovery of an ethereal utopia where the people...
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    however, appears to have begun only during the Six Dynasties period, with Tao Yuanming and Ge Hong among the first literati to have given themselves Hao.[citation...
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    Gardens poetry genre was Tao Yuanming (also known as Tao Qian (365–427), among other names or versions of names). Tao Yuanming has been regarded as the...
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  • god of agriculture, forests, and of the alcoholic drinks of the Gauls. Tao Yuanming, Chinese spirit of wine. Tenemit, Egyptian goddess of beer. Varuni, Hindu...
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  • accordingly show marked seasonal aspects. Tao Yuanming, also known as Tao Qian, lived from 365 to 427. Tao was one of the Six Dynasties' southern poets:...
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    desire to retire from politics and adopt a hermit's life in the manner of Tao Yuanming. In the Xianju rhyme-prose, he writes 'This is the way of ruling for...
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    garden after a line in the Chinese poem Let Me Return Home Again by Tao Yuanming. The garden is about 35,000 square meters. It has a large central pond...
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    Jin dynasty. He was the great-grandfather of the Jin Dynasty poet Tao Yuanming. Tao Kan was born under the rule of Eastern Wu, and his father was an Eastern...
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  • Lycurgus (ca. 100 CE) by Plutarch The Peach Blossom Spring (Tao Hua Yuan) (421 CE) by Tao Yuanming The Virtuous City (Al-Madina al-Fadila) by Al-Farabi (874–950)...
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    For example, in lines of the second of the "Drinking Songs" series by Tao Yuanming (using poetic antithesis):    It is said that accumulated good brings...
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    Kingdoms. Another peach orchard, in "The Peach Blossom Spring" by poet Tao Yuanming, is the setting of the favourite Chinese fable and a metaphor for utopias...
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  • 4th century) Su Xiaoxiao (fl. 4th century) Sunzi (fl. 3rd century) Tao Yuanming (365–427) Wang Bi (226–249) Wang Chong (27–97) Wang Xizhi (303–361) Wang...
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    other literary works. He wrote a poem about Tao Yuanming called Reading Tao Yuanming's Poems": Tao Yuanming freed himself from official business: he returned...
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    critics to be the most important Chinese writer between Qu Yuan and Tao Yuanming. The standard history of the period is the Records of the Three Kingdoms...
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  • Gardens poetry genre was Tao Yuanming (also known as Tao Qian (365–427), among other names or versions of names). Tao Yuanming has been regarded as the...
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  • found in the poetry of Six Dynasties poet Tao Yuanming (365?–427). According to Yeh Chia-ying, one of Tao's most frequently used metaphors is that of...
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    Collection of Supernatural Tales) Zhengao (真誥, Declarations of the Perfected) Tao Yuanming Xie Lingyun Xie Tiao Shen Yue Sanskrit: Kālidāsa (speculated): Abhijñānaśākuntalam...
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    Tao Yuanming holding Lingzhi by Chen Hongshou...
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  • Song Yu (宋玉) Su Shi (苏轼) Su Xiaoxiao (苏小小) Shang Ting (商挺) Tao Qian, also known as Tao Yuanming Wang Anshi Wang Bo Wang Can Wang Changling Wang Rong Wang...
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    from Sima Xiangru and Sima Qian during the Han dynasty, Ruan Ji and Tao Yuanming during the Six Dynasties, Li Bai during the Tang dynasty, to Su Shi and...
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  • singer Meixia Tao, Chinese electrical engineer Michael Tao, television actor Tao Qian, warlord during the late Han Dynasty Tao Yuanming, scholar and poet...
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    source") is a scenic area in Taoyuan County, Hunan, China, in memory of Tao Yuanming's The Peach Blossom Spring. It has been a sacred Taoist site since the...
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    Yichun is also the birthplace of a number of literary figures, such as Tao Yuanming and Deng Gu, both of whom are famous poets in China history. Yichun spans...
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  • Wheat field and recall the ideals of the ancient Chinese pastoral poet Tao Yuanming. The theme of nostalgia for the village life of his childhood, love for...
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    is also shown through specific allusions, for example to Qu Yuan or Tao Yuanming, and occasionally by name, for example Du Fu. A more general appreciation...
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  • literature, particularly for his studies of Six Dynasties period poet Tao Yuanming. Yuan has been a professor of Chinese literature at Peking University...
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  • Painting and Poetry. Other writers and poets referred to include Wang Wei, Tao Yuanming, Bashō, Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy), Oscar Wilde (The Critic as...
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