Zhao Yan appointed him as a national wine sacrifice because his relatives were old and poor. He didn't wait to endure the official position, and went home by himself in a few days. The country hired him as the master book, but he didn't go, so he cultivated his own land to support himself, so he got a thin disease. Tan Daoji said: "A wise man lives in seclusion when the imperial court has no choice, and comes out as an official when he is politically conscious. Now that you were born in an enlightened event, why do you want to spoil yourself so much? " Tao Yuanming replied, "How dare I pretend to be a saint? My ambition is not comparable to theirs. " Daoji gave him Liang rou, and Yuan Ming threw it away.
He joined the army as a town army and Jianwei, and said to his relatives and friends, "I want to be a civil servant to earn some money to support my family." The person in charge of these things heard about it and appointed him as Peng's manager. Gong Tian ordered to plant all kinds of grain (wine), saying, "As long as it can keep me drunk." My wife and children insist on planting japonica rice. So he ordered 50 mu of rice and 50 mu of japonica rice. At the end of the year, the county sent Du You to his county. His subordinates said they would wear formal clothes to meet Du You. Tao Qian sighed and said, "I can't bend down (lose my dignity) for five buckets of rice (these salaries) and work carefully for the country's little people!" Also printed on the same day, leaving pengze county, as a "return".
In the fourteenth year (the last year of history), he applied for the position of Lang, but failed to put it into use. Jiangzhou secretariat Wang Hong wants to know him, but he can't call. Once I went to Lushan Mountain, Ms. Wang asked her old friend Pang Tong to wait for him on his way to Lushan Mountain with wine and meat. Tao Qian's foot was ill, so he asked two sons of one of his disciples to carry baskets and took him to this place in Chestnut Town. Comrade Pang invited him to rest and drink together, and Tao Qian readily agreed. Ms. Wang arrived soon. When she saw Tao Qian sitting on the basket, she was not angry. It turns out that when I was in Xunyang, I had a friendship with him. Later, Yan Yanzhi was an official in Shi 'an County. He passed by Tao Qian's place every day and went to Tao Qian's house. I drink and get drunk every time I come here. Hiro wants to ask him to sit down for a while, because he can't enjoy it the next day. When he left, Yan Yanzhi left Tao Qian twenty thousand yuan, and Tao Qian sent all the money to the restaurant, so it would be much more convenient to take wine later. Once there was no wine on September 9, I went out and sat in the chrysanthemum bushes for a long time. As it happens, Wang Hong brought wine, so I immediately started drinking and went back when I was drunk. Tao Qian doesn't know the tune, but he has a lute without strings. Whenever he drinks it happily, he touches it to express his feelings. No matter who comes to Tao Qian, he will give a banquet to entertain the guests. If Tao Qian gets drunk first, he will say to the guests, "I am drunk and want to go to bed." You can go back. " That is his honest temperament. The magistrate (official name) went to Tao Qian to inspect, and the wine he brewed was just ripe, so Tao Qian took off the kudzu towel on his head, filtered it and put it on him again.
His wife is Zhai. She can live a hard-working and hard-working life like his ambition. Tao Qian himself thinks that his great-grandfather was a great official of Zaifu in the Jin Dynasty, and he thinks it is very shameful to be a small official. Especially losing the face of our ancestors. Since the Song Gaozu dynasty became more and more powerful, he refused to be an official again. In the fourth year of Yuanjia, he died when the court was about to recruit him as an official. He was 63 when he died. The whole world calls him Mr. Jingjie.