陶淵明“始家宜豐”說獻疑

Against the Statement that “Tao Yuanming's Hometown was Yifeng"

陶淵明故里何在?史傳、地理著作、陶氏宗譜的說法皆不一致,江西九江、星子、宜豐人士亦至今爭論不休。沈約《宋書·隱逸傳》等稱陶淵明爲"尋陽柴桑人",而樂史《太平寰宇記》引《圖經》說:"淵明始家宜豐,後徙柴桑。"近二十多年來,江西宜豐人士多方論證淵明"始家宜豐"。然證以史傳、顏延之《陶徵士誄》,尤其是陶淵明詩文,此說矛盾之處很多,實不足取信。

Where was the definite hometown of Tao Yuanming? Actually,there were different statements about it in historical biographies,geographical works and genealogies of Tao Family.People of Jiujiang,Xingzi and Yifeng also have been arguing it up to the present.In several history materials such as Hermits Biography of Song History《宋書·隱逸傳》 by Shen Yue,Tao Yuanming was claimed from Chaisang,Xunyang.But late to the Northern Song Dynasty,according to Map Scripture《圖經》quoted by Geography Records of China in Taiping Era《太平寰宇記》,Yue Shi said,"Tao Yuanming was originally in Yifeng and moved to Chaisang afterwards." In the past two decades,people of Yifeng have demonstrated from various aspects that Yifeng was the definite hometown of Tao Yuanming.In this paper,with proofs in historical biographies and The Eulogy on Tao《陶徵士誄》by Yan Yanzhi,especially in Tao Yuanming's poems and prose,the statement above is proved to be full of contradictions and not credible.