陶侃是晋初鄱阳(今江西波阳县)人,后迁居寻阳(九江市),是晋末著名作家陶渊明的曾祖父。他官至长沙郡公,拜为大将军。但他的生活很俭朴。《晋书·陶侃传》青年时代的陶侃,家境并不富裕,父亲早死,由母亲湛氏抚养成人。那时他在本地寻阳县里当一名小吏,负责管理鱼池。有一次,带回一些腌鱼给母亲。当她知道拿的大家东西时,很生气,当场批评,封存不吃,这使陶侃受到深刻的教育。陶侃做广州剌史时,有一次公家造船,剩下许多竹根、竹梢和木屑。这些东西,本来只好算是废物了,但陶侃叫办事人员全部登记 Tao Kan is the early Poyang (now Jiangxi Bo Yangxian) people, then moved to Xunyang (Jiujiang City), is the late Jin Dynasty famous writer Tao Yuanming’s great-grandfather. His official to Changsha county public, thanks to the general. But his life is very frugal. “Jin book Tao Kan Biography” Tao Kan youth, family wealth is not rich, his father premature death, raised by the mother Cham’s adult. At that time he was a local Xiaoyang Xiyang official, responsible for the management of fish ponds. Once, bring some pickled fish to your mother. When she knew what to take, she was very angry, criticized on the spot, sealed and not eaten, which made Tao Kan deeply educated. Tao Kan Guangzhou assassination history, there was a public shipbuilding, leaving many bamboo roots, bamboo shoots and sawdust. These things, could only be regarded as waste, but Tao McCain called all registered staff