Tao Yuanming's Poetry as Commentaries on the Analects:How Robert Ashmore Connects Tao Yuanming with Confucius

1.Tao Yuanming:A Confucian Thinker It is common sense that in the history of Chinese philosophy,the Wei and Jin period witnessed the ebb of Confucianism after the Han dynasty.With the blossom of Daoism and Buddhism,the influence of Confucius’teaching in this period,compared with that in the Han dynasty,was relatively attenuated.