Abstract：Meng Haoran was a famous landscape and pastoral poet in the high Tang Dynasty. He travelled between cities and landscapes throughout his life. Although he did not rise to fame or wealth， his name was widely known. The reason why he was celebrated by his contemporaries was his free personality. “Social poems” were prominent in his poetry collection. By analyzing the “confusion of freedom” presented in his “social poems” and the “questions about freedom” and “adaptation of freedom” in his “capital poems” and “Xiangyang poems”， the two main “social” places， this work aims to explore the manifestation of his personality. In short， his poetry always paid attention to his own feelings of the moment， without any pretense， and he did not care whether his behavior and intentions were consistent when he travelled to the capital city and lived in seclusion in Xiangyang. His social poems always had “confusion of freedom ” and “questions about freedom”， but ultimately reached the psychological state of “adaptation of freedom ”. At the same time， his personality and poetic style had far-reaching influence.
2024, Vol. 63 
