到了七世纪末已经分别有了四部陶渊明传,尽管这四部传记并非是毫无联系的.这些传记非常简单,根据较近的观点来看,这些传记中几乎没有什么精确和真实的材料,当然也就很难称得上是“传记”.它们原打算成为陶渊明一生的记录。但陶渊明在他所处的时代的政治历史中的作用事实上是微不足道的,这样一来,对这些传记的作者们来说他的一生便缺乏显著的材料;因为根据大家公认的对传记概念的理解,传记应当力求以政治事件为线索来写一个人。陶渊明主要是一位诗人和作家,关于他的一部文学 By the end of the seventh century, there were already four separate Tao Yuanming traditions, though these four biographies are not without any connection. These biographies are very simple and, according to the more recent ones, there are few accurate and authentic materials in these biographies Hard to call it a “biography.” They intended to be Tao Yuanming’s life record. But Tao’s role in the political history of the era in which he lived is in fact insignificant so that for the authors of these biographies there is a lack of significant material for his life; for, on the basis of generally accepted understanding of biographical concepts , Biographies should seek to write a man as a clue to political events. Tao Yuanming is mainly a poet and writer about his literature