Generations of hermits who followed his example would "try to finish reading Tao in bed, then get up to hoe melons when the rain is light." A vision still very much the reserve of the literati.
而他所造就出一代代「臥讀陶詩未終卷，又乘微雨去鋤瓜」的田園隱逸，也只是文人的專利罷。