The Image of Yanhuang and Utopia in Tao Yuanming's Poems and Essays

There is no lack of the image of Yuanhuang in many outstanding literary works, while the evolution of the image is closely and inseparably related to the spirit of time, Tao's life experience and his creation states. According to the ancient books and records, before Tao, the image of Yanhuang was mostly divided into three categories:the gods with unusual appearance, wise emperors, immortals of Taoism. In Tao's poems and essays, the image was showed in three ways:the Confucian sage of the time of peace and prosperity, the immortal of Taoism, an image of hermit.The color of hermit was created by Tao. His work, Peach Blossom Spring, was a specific display of the flourishing age ruled by Emperors Yan and Huang in his imagination, which had a strong hermit color. In other words, Peach Blossom Spring is an utopian Yanhuang heyday of Tao Yuanming.