Tao Yuanming and his poems have been not only a “Cultural phenomenon” in the history of literature but also spiritual refuge among almost all scholars. Especially the most famous one, “Peach Blossom Spring”, which built the utopia “Wuling Taoyuan”. The studies of Tao Yuanming in Chinese literary history are robust and endure over time, becoming the studies of Tao. Besides, there are more and more theories from western recently. The studies of Tao Yuanming formed by accepted history have become the general trend.
The mean issue of the dissertation is, if the image about Tao Yuanming needs the re-interpretation or not, while Taiwanese classical poetry inheriting continental Chinese culture and these are influent by the particularity of Taiwan’s oceanographic landscape and volatility regime. In an island country having volatility regime and constantly moving population, is the inside building from Tao Yuanming same as the studies from Chinese scholars? And what about the features and the meaning from the phenomenon?
The dissertation is based on “Chuan Tai Shi”, which has fifty volumes and is the most rigorous and detailed Taiwanese classical poetry collection. Besides, the digitization of Taiwan Classical Poems provides the most convenient information retrieval. Hoping to investigate the phenomenon of Tao Yuanming in Taiwanese classical poetry from the large information.
The dissertation is divided into four parts: descendant, travel, seclusion and truth, combining Tao Yuanming with Taiwanese classical poetry as the research methods: Descendant, Tao Yuanming phenomenon of descendant poetry. Travel, Tao Yuanming phenomenon from the travel of literary men. Seclusion, Tao Yuanming phenomenon in the Garden Life of Classical Poets. Truth, the spirit of learning Tao’s poetry.
Taiwanese classical poetry originates from China. Standing on the perspective of literary dissemination and acceptance, it is not difficult finding the inheritance and new changes. “Wuling Taoyuan” and other Tao Yuanming phenomenon are changed by the time and Taiwanese cultures, which shows the interest of difference in same and same in difference. Besides continuing the accepted history of Tao Yuanming, the research is still in hoping of helping the improvement of Taiwan's Tao studies.