His life was turbulent and displaced, and he did not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, but depicted a peach blossom source that had been passed down for thousands of years

In 352 AD, a baby fell to the ground, probably no one expected that this humble baby boy would later become the greatest writer of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. And he is the protagonist we introduce today - Tao Yuanming.

Tao Yuanming, the name qian, the character Yuanliang, the world known as "Mr. Jingjie".

His great-grandfather is said to be Tao Kan, the founding general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his maternal grandfather was the famous Jin Dynasty scholar Meng Jia. His grandfather was too conservative, and his father was even more legendary, a true gentleman who "did not like things and did not grieve with himself".

Tao Yuanming was born in such a family of officials and eunuchs, and grew up under the influence of books.

When he was three years old, his mother gave birth to a baby girl, who was later Cheng's sister.

Looking at his sleeping sister in the cradle, Tao Yuanming's heart was indescribably happy.

But the good times did not last long, and Tao Yuanming's family situation began to take a sharp turn - at the age of eight, his father died for a long time, and when he was twelve, his mother also followed his father.

Tao Yuanming's birth mother sat in the room, weeping because she had lost her husband and sisters, but suddenly remembered that she had not seen her son for a long time. Afraid that he would not be able to bear the stimulation, he hurried out to look for it.

The little-footed woman traveled to her son's favorite place, in the thick forest of the back mountain, by the babbling stream, on the fields full of wheat, but she could not find any trace of him.

In the end, she could only drag her tired body back to the house, prepare to cook on the fire, and pray for the early return of her son at home.

But when she just pushed open the door, she smelled a pungent smell of rice. Entering the house, I found Obuchi Akira in front of the stove, his small face was red from the fire, there was still a touch of charcoal black on his cheeks, and the table was already prepared.

Looking at the busy little figure, Tao Mu couldn't help but shed tears.

That year, Yuanming was only twelve years old.

We often say that young people are old, and many times they are created by pain.

This immutable law cannot be avoided even if it is as great as Tao Yuanming.

At the age of twenty, Tao Yuanming's family was particularly poor. Later, he recalled the past and described that time as "weak years and lack of family".

In order to make ends meet, he had to go to the East China Sea to serve, just to get a few buckets of rice to maintain food and clothing.

During this period, the specifics of the low-level officials he served as to earn a living could not be verified.

Later, recalling those days in the tenth book of Drinking, he wrote:

"In the past, I traveled far away to the east sea corner. The road is long and long, and the wind and waves are blocked in the middle. Whoever made this trip seemed to be driven by hunger. When you lean over the camp, you have more than enough. Fearing that this is not a name, the driving will return to idleness. ”

By the time the hard days finally came out, Tao Yuanming was no longer young, at this time he was nearly thirty years old, and at the age of twenty-nine, he finally found an official and a half-job and served as a sacrificial wine in Jiangzhou.

Looking at the belated seal, he was a little confused for a while.

Three years later, Tao Yuanming's birth mother was seriously ill, and even though he was fast, he could not see the last meeting with his mother. In the three years that Xunyang kept the funeral, he did not live a day that was not in regret.

After the expiration of Ding's period, he once again served as a member of the army under the general Liu Yu of the Zhen Army.

At this time, although he was in the army, he still had a pastoral heart. Countless times in his dreams, he had returned to that pure land, the fairy tale about the harmonious coexistence of mountains, lakes, cultivated land, birds and beasts.

"Looking tired of the river, thinking of the mountain zeju" is probably the best summary of this mixed feeling.

In the first year of Yixi, the Jianwei general Liu Jingxuan heard of his talent and recruited him to join the army. On the way to the capital, looking at the stars in the sky, he began to recall the ups and downs of the official arena in the past half of his life. In the end, he saw through his career and strengthened his ideal of returning to the countryside.

In August of the first year of Yixi, Tao Yuanming left his hometown to serve as the commander of Pengze County, which was his last appearance.

In November, late one night, the pawn knocked on his door, and it turned out to be a family letter from Wuchang's brother-in-law. He thanked the messenger and turned back into the room, where piles of official documents were on his desk.

"Maybe I'll go to Wuchang again."

He thought like this while opening the envelope, but the moment he saw the letter, he almost fainted on the spot--it said: My wife Cheng died in Wuchang.

He thought that it was caused by his own reading of official documents all night, and his eyes were dazzled, so he looked at it again: My wife Cheng died in Wuchang.

"Could it be that it was sent to the wrong place?" So, he looked at the drop again.

"Maybe the lights are too dim?" So he lit another lamp.

"No, it's a matter of angle?"

"Still not..."

In this way, a letter of eight characters, he read back and forth more than a dozen times, but the meaning of the above has never changed:

"Cheng's sister died in Wuchang."

He only felt a weakness in his body and sat paralyzed on the ground.

He looked down at the letter in his hand, remembering the time when he was playing with his sister when he was a child, they chased each other, made trouble, and went to the field in the back mountain, brandishing a hoe taller than them, and cultivating their childhood dreams.

Slowly, the picture blurred, and it turned out that the tears had blindfolded his eyes. And the letter paper in his hand was already mostly wet...

The next day, when it was time to ascend to the church, the servants came to knock on the door as usual, but they did not see a response. In desperation, everyone had to push the door in.

After entering the door, the crowd looked around for Zhang Wang, but saw that the house was empty. They saw that the black gauze hat and the seal that should have been worn by Tao Xian Ling were actually placed directly on the public case at this time, and the official clothes were neatly folded below, next to the official documents that Yuanming had corrected all night, and the county ling himself had long disappeared...

Later, an article called "Return to Xi Ci" suddenly arose among the people, which was said to have been written by their former county grandfather.

In his later years, Tao Yuanming's home was very lively, and Wang Hong, the Assassin of Jiangzhou, Shi'an Taishou Yanyanzhi and others were his close friends. Together, they left anecdotes such as "measuring shoes", "sending wine in white clothes", and "Yan Gong paying for wine", which were recited by the world.

Even Tan Daoji, the "Great Wall of The Great Wall" of the Liu Song Dynasty, personally visited him and gave him "sorghum meat" (exquisite meals) and asked Tao Yuanming to re-enter the army as an official. However, just like the previous court's conscription of him, he politely refused, and the "sorghum meat" was not accepted.

In the same year, Tao Yuanming died of starvation and illness, and did not receive handouts from the officialdom until his death.

Hundreds of years later, at the head of the Xunyang River, another Sima of Jiangzhou (Bai Juyi) wept here:

"The same is the fallen man at the end of the world, why should they have known each other when they met?"

He lost his father at an early age, lost his mother at a young age, and fell into economic difficulties in his youth. Middle-aged and depressed, until finally, the death of his sister made him firm in his ideals, and from then on he returned to the countryside and engaged in nongsang and literary creation.

Now when people mention Tao Yuanming, the most widely known is his "Peach Blossom Origin" and his backbone of "not bending the waist for five buckets of rice".

Throughout Tao Yuanming's life, it cannot be said that he was upside down and displaced, but he still used his amazing talent to open up a spiritual peach blossom source for the literati in the Southern and Northern Dynasties that were monopolized by the door valve, and also left a great spiritual wealth for future generations.

After writing this article late at night, looking at the moon wheel on the nebula, I couldn't help but think of a thousand thoughts, so I wrote a poem, trying to summarize the life of this great man, and laughed:

"Late At Night Remembrance of Jing Jie Gong"

(Modern) Zhouchen

After reading through the books of the group, I finally realized that the Six Classics were learned at a young age.

Sending a trail of wind and clouds to make a living, the eunuch Donghai camp is full.

It is really fun to put wine on the fence, and it is good to join the army if farming is good.

Xieyin Pengze returned to his hometown, and Tao Gongqi was known to the world.

About the author: Zhouchen, loves literature, likes to write, has a brief understanding of literary history, and studies psychology.