左思(约250-约305)字太冲,临淄(今山东临淄)人,出身寒微,相貌丑陋而又口吃,生卒年都不可确考。但他文章写得好,相传他用十年时间写成的《三都赋》,曾使得“豪贵之家,竞相传写,洛阳为之纸贵”(《晋书·左思传》)。即便如此,由于出身庶族,在那“上品无寒门,下品无势族”的士族制度下,他要在官场上出人头地,也是不大可能 Zuo Si (about 250 to about 305) words too red, Linzi (now Linzi, Shandong) people, born cold, ugly appearance and stuttering, birth and death can not be confirmed. However, his article is well written. According to legend, he wrote “Three Capital Fu” in a decade and has made “a house of pride and luxury, competing for writing and writing, and paper for Luoyang” (Jin Shu Zuo Si Chuan). Even so, due to his or her family background, it is unlikely that he will succeed in the officialdom under the system of the “no goods of the highest quality and the no goods of the inferior”