A hermit is a hermit. The first is the "scholar", that is, intellectuals, otherwise there would be no seclusion. Don't be an official, don't be famous, work as a farmer in the countryside all your life, or do business in seclusion in rivers and lakes, or live in caves to cut wood. There are countless hermits in past dynasties, and not all of them can be called hermits.
Studying the hermits in China is definitely related to the real political society, but the method used is always to help others from the side, and I don't want to stand in the middle, or help his friends, students and others to succeed, but I never stand up. In every pioneering era in China, I saw many such people.
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A famous hermit
Although Tao Yuanming didn't write poems with the theme of "inviting seclusion", his poems reached the peak of "seclusion poems". The most famous poem, of course, is entitled "Drinking", the fifth one: "Building a house in a person's environment, but there are no chariots and horses. Ask what you can do, your heart is far from self-prejudice.
Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely. The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back. That makes sense. I forgot to say it. "This kind of hermit poetry is really extraordinary.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Hermit Culture