归园田居

歸園田居

Guī yuántián jū

proper noun

Meanings

1 Returning to Live in the Fields, Tao Yuanming's five poems on going home to farm

Characters

to live; dwelling

Examples

HSK 7-9

陶渊明辞官回家种地以后，写了五首《归园田居》。

Táo Yuānmíng cíguān huí jiā zhòngdì yǐhòu, xiě le wǔ shǒu 《 Guī yuántián jū 》.

After Tao Yuanming gave up office and went home to farm, he wrote five poems called 'Returning to Live in the Fields'.

HSK 7-9

“种豆南山下，草盛豆苗稀”是《归园田居》里的句子。

" Zhòng dòu nán shān xià, cǎo shèng dòu miáo xī " shì 《 Guī yuántián jū 》 lǐ de jùzi.

'I planted beans below the southern hill; the weeds grew thick and the bean shoots few' is a line from 'Returning to Live in the Fields'.

Tips

culture

Written around 406, the year after 陶渊明 resigned as magistrate of Pengze. The first poem begins 少无适俗韵，性本爱丘山 'from youth I had no taste for worldly ways; by nature I loved the hills and mountains', and ends 久在樊笼里，复得返自然 'long kept in a cage, I have come back to what is natural'.

Stroke Order

归 guī

园 yuán

田 tián

居 jū