Tao Yuanming

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Tao Yuanming (traditional Chinese : ; simplified Chinese : ; pinyin : Táo Yuanmíng ; Wade–Giles : T'ao Yüan-ming ) also known as Tao Qian (simplified Chinese : ; traditional Chinese : ; pinyin : Táo Qián ; Wade–Giles : T'ao Ch'ien ) (365–427) was a Chinese poet of the Six Dynasties period (c. 220 - 589 CE). Tao Yuanming later changed his name to Tao Qian and is generally regarded as the greatest poet during the centuries between the Han and Tang dynasties. He is also the foremost of the "recluse" poets, or the poets who seem to have written their greatest work while in reclusion and/or those poets in whose poems the theme of countryside solitude particularly resonates.