Chapter 64 Biography of Mr. Wuliu

The gentleman does not know who he is, nor his surname.There are five willow trees beside the house, because they thought they were named Yan.Be quiet and talk less, and don't admire glory and profit.Good at reading, but don't seek deep understanding; every time you have an understanding, you will happily forget to eat.He is addicted to alcohol and his family is poor, so he can't get it often.Old friends know this, or buy wine and invite it.If you drink all you want, you will be drunk in the future; if you get drunk and retire, you will not hesitate to leave or stay.The surrounding blockage is desolate, and the sun is not sheltered from the wind.The short brown wears a knot, and the scoop is empty repeatedly, Yan Ruye.I often write articles to entertain myself and show my ambition.Forget about gains and losses, and end with this.

Zan said: Qian Lou's wife said: "I don't worry about poverty and humbleness, and I don't care about wealth and honor."Compose cups and compose poems to enjoy one's aspirations, is there no Huai family's people?A citizen of the Ge Tian clan? —— "Tao Yuanming Collection" This so-called "biography" is actually a sketch by the author expressing his own interests.Lin Yunming's "Analysis of Ancient Prose" said that the two sentences "Wuhuai" and "Ge Tian" at the end of the praise "implyed the meaning of not being an official in the Song Dynasty". This biography is an autobiographical account of his life."Liu Yuzhi usurped the Jin Dynasty and became the Song Dynasty. In the first year of Yongchu (420), Lu Qin set up "Tao Yuanming's Deeds, Poems and Essays" Cai Lin and Wu Zhi said, so it is assumed that it was written by Tao Yuanming around the age of fifty-six.Tao Yuanming's poverty even worsened in his later years.

The full text shares nine "bu" characters, and Qian Zhongshu's "Guan Zhui Bian" Volume Four thinks "bu" is an eye-eye.Since it is called "Biography", is there any reason why you don't know who you are, and don't know the origin of your surname?Now it is written like this, "Those who are inspiring the world to sell their reputation and boast their land will be destroyed."You are right.In short, it is a kind of contempt for worldly snobbery.In the article, "good at reading, do not seek deep understanding, and forget to eat every time you get to know it", which is the meaning of "forgetting to speak when you are complacent" in "Zhuangzi·Waiwu".

Secondly, in the article, "do not admire glory and profit", "forget about gains and losses", "do not worry about poverty and lowliness, and do not seek wealth and honor" and so on. It is speculated that Tao Yuanming's original intention is probably to express that he has no intention of being an official and does not care about gains and losses. Therefore, I hope that people will not recommend and persuade people. The last Wuhuai and Getian's people mean "what is the power of the emperor to me".But Zhang Tingyu's "Chenghuai Garden Yu" Volume 1 said: "When I was 20 years old, I read Tao Yuanming's "Mr. Wuliu Biography", thinking that later generations wrote it for me, and it was not written by my husband. There is no admiration for glory, forgetting about gains and losses, and no regrets in the chapter. It is true that those who care about poverty and lowliness, do not draw attention to the words of wealth and honor, have a lot of traces, and those who are afraid that the sky will be carefree will not be like this. Although this is a young man's wild talk, it may not be completely wrong if he thinks about it so far." It is indeed true. "It may not be all wrong."Because the aspirations of not admiring glory and not worrying about poverty and lowliness, even if they originated from other scholars, are regarded as noble and elegant, but now Tao Yuanming himself has become a flaunt, and there must be a limit to frankness.