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 Tao Yi are both governors. But by the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the government was 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 insisted on reading and writing poems. He cares about the sufferings of the people, has the ambition of "fleeing all over the world and worshiping Philip Burkart", and with the desire of "helping the world and the people", he became a wine sacrifice in Jiangzhou. Because he didn't like the bad style of officialdom, he resigned and went home soon, and then the country called him the main book, and he also politely declined.

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 an anonymous life. 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. Eighty-one days after he arrived, I met Du You sent by Xunyang County to inspect official business. Liu Yun, a native of Xunyang County, is famous for his greed for money. He asks for bribes from the county twice a year in the name of patrol, and every time he returns with a full load, otherwise he will plant it. The county official said, "When the belt is fastened, welcome it." Is to dress neatly, 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?" How can I humbly bribe these little people for the county magistrate's salary of five dou meters? Say that finish, hang the crown, resign and return to China. Since then, he has been studying and writing, and at the same time, he has been working in Longmu.

Tao Yuanming's wife Zhai shares his interests. She lives in poverty and lives her own holidays. "The husband plows in front and the wife hoes in the back." When a friend visits, no matter how high or low, as long as there is wine at home, drink it with him. Although living in poverty, he has been reluctant to accept this position. In the first year of Yuanjia in Song Wendi (424), Tan Daoji, the secretariat of Jiangzhou, visited in person, but refused to accept rice and meat from Jiangzhou envoys. The court once called him a writer, but he refused.

He could have lived comfortably and richly, at least well-fed, but he sacrificed his personality and integrity, so he chose a hard but quiet and free pastoral life. What you gain, you lose. Tao Yuanming gained the freedom of mind and dignity of personality, and wrote poems with unique style and lasting fame. It has left precious literary wealth and precious spiritual wealth for future generations.