Tao Yuanming likes drinking, but he has no money to buy it. He can only sit at the door every day and wait for his friends to bring him wine. His friends are also happy to send him wine, but friends can't come every day. Tao Yuanming began to make his own wine. Tao Yuanming intends to plant dozens of acres of land in his family into sorghum. Why? Because he wants to make wine with sorghum.
This made Tao Yuanming's wife very angry: "The wine is ready, what to eat?" Tao Yuanming said, "What is the staple food for drinking?" His wife said, "If you don't eat, we will." It is said that a piece of land has been left to grow some rice and soybeans, or even rice can't be eaten.
Although the problem of eating and drinking is solved, the clothes themselves cannot solve it. For a long time, Tao Yuanming didn't wear shoes until his good friend Wang Hong saw it and ordered his men to make shoes for Tao Yuanming. Only then did he put on his new shoes.
Soon after, a friend came to visit him, and when he saw that his life was poor, he left 20 thousand yuan. As soon as his friend left, Tao Yuanming turned around and went to the restaurant, patting all 20,000 yuan on the counter: I'll just get the wine, and I'll keep the money in your store, and I'll deduct it every time I come to drink. The true nature of an alcoholic is heroism.
Later, when the house caught fire, it was even poorer. It can be said that the home is surrounded by four walls, and it is as poor as a mouse in a church: "The ring blocks the bleak, and it does not cover the wind and the sun; Short brown knots, ladybugs are empty. " In the end, I couldn't even drink.
Extended data
At the age of twenty, Yuan Ming started his official career to make a living. "Drinking" Part 10: "I swam far to the corner of the East China Sea. It's a long way to go, Xiu Yuan, and wind and rain hinder the road. Who made this trip? As if driven by hunger. Just have a little when you are full. Afraid that this is not a famous plan, I will go back to a hidden place "is to recall his official career." "
At this stage, the details of the junior officials he was forced to serve by life are unknown. After a short life at home, at the age of 29, he became a wine offering officer in Jiangzhou (the specific affairs of this office have yet to be verified), and soon became an official, resigned and returned to China. Soon, the country asked him to be the master book, but he resigned and still lived at home.
In the second year of Longan (AD 398), Yuanming joined Huan Xuan. At the beginning of the fourth year of Longan (AD 400), he was sent to the capital and returned from the capital in May. Yu Guilin was blocked by the strong wind, and there was a poem "Gengzi was still blocked from the capital in May", which expressed his desire to return home and his nostalgia for the former residence in the garden. A year later, I went back to Xunyang to mourn my mother.
After the expiration of three years, Yuan Ming became an official again with the concept of "forty ignorance and no fear" and became a general of the town army, Liu Yu. At this point, his mood is contradictory. He wanted to show his great ambition as an official, but he still attached himself to the countryside after he became an official. "His eyes are tired of differences in Sichuan, and his heart is full of mountains and rivers" (Qu Azuo, the first town army joined the army).
In March of the first year of Yixi (A.D. 405), Yuan and Ming joined Liu Shenjun, the general of Jianwei, and moved to the west to build the capital. There is a poem called "When I was four years old, I crossed the capital of western Guizhou", which said, "I look at the mountains and rivers every morning, and everything remains the same", "I care about what I have, but I don't care what I have" and "I dream about gardening every day, and I haven't seen you for a long time", which is the turmoil between officials.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Tao Yuanming