Brief introduction of Tao Yuanming

Tao Yuanming (352 or 365-427), also known as "Jingjie", was born in Xunyang Chaisang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). A great poet and poet at the end of Eastern Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Southern Song Dynasty.

He served as Jiangzhou Wine Sacrifice, Jianwei Army, Zhenjun, and Pengze County Order, and the last official position was Pengze County Order. He left his post for more than 80 days and retired to the countryside. He is the first landscape pastoral poet in China, and is known as "the ancestor of hermit poets in ancient and modern times?" , there is "Tao Yuanming Collection".

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Don't bend over for five bushels of rice;

In ancient China, there were many stories about refusing to eat because of maintaining personality and integrity. Tao Yuanming's "five buckets of rice don't fold" is one of the most representative examples.

Tao Yuanming was a great poet and celebrity in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his great-grandfather was a famous Eastern Jin. When Tao Yuanming was young, he had the ambition of "benefiting people all his life", but in the turbulent era when the country was on the verge of collapse, his ambition could not be realized at all.

In addition, his personality is honest and frank, honest and honest, and he doesn't want to grovel and cling to the powerful, so he has a sharp contradiction with the dirty and dark real society and has a feeling of being out of place.

In order to survive, Tao Yuanming first became a small official in the state, but because he didn't like the bad style of officialdom, he quickly resigned and went home. Later, in order to make a living, he also worked in some low-ranking official positions one after another and lived an anonymous life.

Tao Yuanming was an official for the last time in the first year of Yixi (405). That year, Tao Yuanming, who had passed the "year of no doubt" (4 1 year old), was persuaded by his friends to serve as Pengze county magistrate again. On one occasion, the county sent Du You to understand the situation.

Someone told Tao Yuanming that those people were sent from above, so they should dress neatly and greet them respectfully. Hearing this, Tao Yuanming sighed: "I don't want to humble myself and pay attention to these guys for the salary of a small county magistrate."

Say that finish, just quit his official position and went home. Tao Yuanming became Pengze county magistrate, but it was only more than eighty days. He left his job this time and left the officialdom forever.

After that, he took part in agricultural labor while studying as a writer. Later, due to the continuous disaster of farmland, the house was burned down and the family situation deteriorated. But he didn't want to be an official any more, and even refused to accept the rice and meat sent by Jiangzhou assassins. The court once called him a writer, but he refused.

Tao Yuanming died of poverty and illness. He could have lived comfortably, at least with food and clothing, but at the cost of his personality and integrity. Tao Yuanming won the freedom of mind and the dignity of personality because he didn't bend his back for five buckets of rice, and wrote a generation of poems with eternal poetic style.

While leaving valuable literary wealth to future generations, it also left valuable spiritual wealth. He became a model of China's later generations for people with lofty ideals because of his lofty integrity. ?

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