Why is Tao Yuanming always an official?

In 393 AD, in the eighteenth year of Emperor Jinxiao in Taiyuan, Tao Yuanming became an official for the first time. The purpose of this official and the reason for his resignation and retirement are recorded in Xiao Tong's Biography of Tao Yuanming: "When my hometown was poor, I began to propose a toast to the country. I can't stand this job and I will return to China in a few days. "

Being an official this time is more out of helplessness under material needs than from the bottom of my heart. After a while, he dissolved automatically and came back.

The second time, he entered the military curtain of Huan Xuan.

In the third year of Jinan Longan (399), when Tao Yuanming was 35 years old, he entered the Huan Xuan Military Curtain. During this period, he wrote two poems called "Tian She in Love with Spring", which no longer need to be bound by "service". He lost the concern of Confucianism for social history. "He sang for Chai Men for a long time and talked about being a dragon shepherd." I hope that in this way, I can find my original self in a pure natural state. Reality makes everyone who has the intention of caring for value inevitably fall into such a dilemma: enthusiastic anxiety and the futility of anxiety. Value concern is faced with all kinds of teasing and negation from the evil of the world, which makes it worthless.

Liu Yu joined the army for the third time.

Jin 'an Yuanxing was three years old (404) and Tao Yuanming was 40 years old. He wrote a four-character poem "Murong", expressing his feelings of "if life has something to send", hoping to make contributions in time. In less than a year, Tao Yuanming resigned from the army and left Emperor Wu of Song. This is certainly related to Tao Yuanming's mood when he was an official, but what Emperor Wu of Song did here is also a reason that cannot be ignored. Although Emperor Wu of Song was brilliant and awed by strongmen, he was suspicious and many talented people were destroyed.

Liu joined the army for the fourth time.

Tao Yuanming, aged 4 1 year, left Liu Yu to join the army in the first year of Yixi (405). This is just a transition before Tao Yuanming's "living in Shandong after all". Faced with the human feelings of mountains and rivers, Tao Yuanming's works have exhausted the heroic enterprising spirit of "I am famous for cars and I am famous for horses", canceled the self-encouragement of "I will rest on the thoroughfare when the time comes", and even reduced the number of people who are tired of traveling in Sichuan and missing mountains and rivers.

The fifth official is Peng.

In the autumn of the same year, Tao Yuanming returned to his hometown and worked in Peng for more than 80 days. Tao Yuanming's reason for appointing Peng this time is very clear: "Talking about string songs as the capital of three paths" is to make material preparations for his future seclusion. Just when he decided to "look forward to it for a long time and die overnight", Du You happened to come to the county seat, prompting him to "resign" and return to the countryside he once loved very much on the pretext of Cheng's sister's death in Wuchang.