In the history of China's poetry, the poet who opened up the eternal plain is

In the history of China's poetry, Tao Yuanming is a poet who created the school of permanent prose.

From Tao Yuanming, prosaic became the realm of poetry. The poet Hu Yinglin said, "Tao's five words are the foundation of prosaic poetry". Liang Shiqiu's analysis of Tao Yuanming's poems is that "magnificence is attributed to plainness, but that plainness is not mediocrity, that plainness is not plainness, and that plainness is an artistic charm that does not show traces of axe."

Su Dongpo commented that "the quality is actually beautiful, but the quality is actually beautiful", Xin Qiji lamented that "after a thousand years, there is not a word that is not halal", Yuan Haowen praised "a word is natural and meaningful, extravagant and pure", and Li Dongyang praised "Tao Yuanming's poems are thick today, and the more you read them, the better".

In the 1600 years after Tao Yuanming's death, there have been two different development threads in the evaluation of Tao Yuanming and his works. As for Tao Yuanming, his life story is recorded in the Book of Jin with his "quiet" character and detached manner. Biography of seclusion, "don't care about poverty and poverty, don't care about wealth" ("Biography of Mr. Wu Liu"), is respected both before and after death.

However, the acceptance and evaluation of Tao Yuanming's poems has gone through a process from indifference to respect. This change is related to the deepening of spiritual civilization and aesthetic accumulation of the Chinese nation. It can be said that the interpretation of Tao Yuanming is new and advancing with the times.

The appreciation and concern of Tao Yuanming by poets and literati in past dynasties has a long history. Influenced by Tao Yuanming, they annotated, studied, sorted out and collected Tao poems. In the period of modern ceramic art, it has developed into a special subject system and a prominent school. This phenomenon is unique among China poets.