读陶渊明故事,颇惊讶于他多次以“家贫”求仕,并且总是哭穷成功,顺利迈进官场。最著名的是第三次出仕经历,据《晋书·陶潜传》载:“(渊明)谓亲朋曰:‘聊欲弦歌,以为三径之资可乎?’执事者闻之,以为彭泽令。”1其实非独陶渊明为然,笔者发现魏晋南朝时期,世族、官宦子弟以“家贫”为由成功求仕的现象比比皆是。不仅如此,南朝皇帝还主动对那些在政权建立中有功、或对稳定政权有重要价值的人物予以褒奖和酬劳。这些 Reading Tao Yuanming story, quite surprised at his many times to “poor” seeking career, and always cry poor success, successfully into the officialdom. The most famous is the third official career experience, according to “Jin Tao Tao Biography” contains: “(Yuan Ming) that relatives and friends said: In fact, non-independence Tao Yuan-ming, I found that during the Wei, Jin and Southern Dynasties, the family, officials and children to ”family poverty " as the grounds for success of the phenomenon everywhere. Moreover, the Southern emperor also volunteered and paid tribute to those who had made prominence in the establishment of the regime or were of great value to the stable regime. These ones