The contents include: Tao Yuanming's life, Tao Yuanming's works, his position in literary history, Tao Yuanming and pastoral poetry. The Song Dynasty Geography General Chronicle "Taiping Huanyu Ji" contains records about Tao Yuanming's family background. It is said that Tao Yuanming "began in Yifeng", which means that his family was quite wealthy at the beginning. This statement is also found in the old "Illustrated Book" of Yifeng. Tao Yuanming left home at the age of 29 and went to Chaisang, where he served as Jiangzhou Jijiujiu, Zhenjun, and joined the army. Later, he served as the magistrate of Pengze County. Because he did not care about the powerful in the officialdom, he eventually abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion in Lili (in today's Xingzi County). At the age of 52, he returned to his hometown in Yifeng with his youngest son Tao Tong. Four years later, he returned to Xunyang and died in Chaisang. Tao Tong stayed in his hometown. This book introduces ancient Chinese literary masters and novel masters with pictures and texts. The contents include: Sima Xiangru's gifted talents, Cao Zhi's eloquent diction and his eloquence of Luo Shen, Han Yu's literary decline in the Eight Dynasties, Ouyang Xiu's articles to carry on the past and open up the future, Luo Guanzhong's beginning to write Zhang Hui style novels, Cao Xueqin's peak novels in the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Jingzi's classical satirical novels, etc.
