公元402年春天,距广州20里的石门来了一位官员,他就是新近被东晋朝廷任命为广州刺史的吴隐之。石门有一眼泉非常有名,当地人传说只要喝了此泉之水,就会变得贪婪无比,所以取名贪泉。吴隐之此行,就是有意要见识一下这眼泉水。广州在当时虽说是个略显偏远的蛮荒之地,但自秦汉以来, In the spring of 402 AD, an official came to Shimen in Guangzhou, where he was the newly appointed Wu Yinzhi, who was appointed as the governor of Guangzhou by the court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Shihmen a spring is very famous, as long as the legend of local people drank the fountain of water, it will become extremely greedy, so named greedy spring. Wu Yin’s trip, is interested in seeing this eye springs. Although at that time in Guangzhou was a slightly remote and wild place, but since the Qin and Han dynasties,