Tao Yuanming was a great poet and writer in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his great-grandfather Tao Kan was a famous fu writer and founding hero in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Grandfather Tao Mao and father pottery have both done satrap. However, at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the political affairs of the court became increasingly corrupt and the officialdom was dark. Tao Yuanming was indifferent by nature. Even though his family was poor and he could not make ends meet, he still insisted on reading and writing poems. He cares about the sufferings of the people, and he has the ambition of "running away from the world with great ambition", which is pregnant with "great help all his life"

Later, he worked in some official positions one after another, but because he was indifferent to fame and fortune, he was honest and upright, unwilling to go along with the corrupt officialdom and lived a secluded life as an official. Tao Yuanming was an official for the last time in the first year of Yixi (405). That year, Tao Yuanming, who had passed the "year of no doubt" (4 1 year old), was persuaded by his friends to serve as Pengze county magistrate again. He took office 8 1 day. Known for his ferocity and greed, he asks for bribes from the county town under his jurisdiction twice a year in the name of patrolling, and returns with a full load every time, otherwise it will be framed. The county magistrate said, "Be sure to meet him." In other words, he should dress up, prepare gifts and greet Du You respectfully. Tao Yuanming sighed, "How can I bow down to the children in the village for five buckets of rice?" This means that I can't humble myself to this for the salary of the county magistrate.