A Poetic Picture of Ecological Consciousness——Peach Blossom Spring from the Perspective of Ecocriticism
Tao Yuanming is a great idyllic poet whose love of nature is reflected in his poems.However,what Tao Yuanming wants to express is not only the appreciation and intoxication of the natural beauty,but also the idea of the original ecological beauty,ecological holism and harmonious coexistence.Based on the theory of ecological aesthetics,the text re-reading of Peach Blossom Spring and the natural thought of Taoism,combined with litera-ture,aesthetics and philosophy,this paper makes a comprehensive investigation of Tao Yuanming's early ecologi-cal consciousness.It can be found that the ecological consciousness presented by Tao Yuanming in Peach Blossom Spring is in essence a profound reflection and criticism of life,which is the starting point and landing point of Tao Yuanming's view of everything.In this essay,Tao Yuanming focuses on three themes:from the appreciation of natural beauty to the reflection of ecological beauty,from the dream of peach blossom to the prospect of ecological holism,from the simplicity of traditional human nature to the hidden worries of the fisherman's image function.As a sober man of The Times,Tao Yuanming has realized the ecological crisis while expressing his utopian yearning for the peach blossom land,and expressed his sense of future distress at the end of the article.This work contains the early ecological consciousness,and provides an early theoretical exploration and practical value for the estab-lishment of the natural and social environment of harmonious coexistence between man and nature in traditional culture.