Tao Yuanming’s Self Funeral Oration
Saturday, February 20th, 2010It was a late autumn evening, cold and chilli. Sixty-three years old Tao Yuanming was seriously sick and feeling the death approaching again through the wicker gate. Born in a noble family, served as government officer, lived through death of two wives and retired into farmer’s life for more than twenty years, he lifted up the pen and wrote down the funeral oration for himself.
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