The distribution of Tao Yuanming's descendants.

Tao Yuanming (365 ~ 427) was a poet, lyricist and essayist in Jin and Song Dynasties. A latent and vivid figure, a private and quiet festival. Xunyang Chaisang (now southwest of Jiujiang, Jiangxi) was born. Tao Yuanming was born in a declining official family. Great-grandfather Tao Kan was the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Taking the military command of Bazhou and the secretariat of Jingjiang II as the official, Changsha as the county magistrate. Tao Yuanming's grandfather was a satrap, his father died young, and his mother was the daughter of Meng Jia, a famous person in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. With the migration of the times, Tao Yuanming's descendants are distributed in Zuzan Lane, Lukou Town, Hunan Province, Lukouzan Lane, Jiangning District, Nanjing and Wu, Jiangning District.

In the second year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, Zhang Gong and Gong Gong, descendants of Tao Yuanming's eldest son, moved from Jiangxi to Hunan, one settled in Anhua, Yiyang, and the other in Hanshou, Changde. Tao Xinhao (a descendant of Tao Yuanming) is a descendant of Zhang Gong who settled in Changde. Since then, the descendants of Tao in this vein have thrived in Hunan. The latent man is good at learning, but his descendants seem to run counter to him in this respect. There are fewer Taoists and more military commanders. Tao, a native of Hanshou County, once served as deputy political commissar of Lanzhou Military Region, and Tao Chengyuan, a native of Lixian County, Hunan Province, came down in one continuous line with the Tao family in Changde.

During the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the Tao family, the "De" generation, moved from Zan Lane in Lukou, Jiangning to Hu Jia Garden in the west of Nanjing City in order to avoid the war disaster of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It has been four generations for more than a hundred years now. Toilet water used to be called "Xinghua Village", which is the "Xinghua Village" referred to by Du Mu's "The Shepherd Refers to Xinghua Village". "Apricot flowers selling wine" in "Forty-eight Scenes of Jinling" in Qing Dynasty refers to this place.

The Potter (the descendant of Tao Yuanming) was born in Hualugang, south of Nanjing. Up to now, I vaguely remember that my home is adjacent to the descendants of Gu Jieyuan, a celebrity in the Ming Dynasty. They often play together, right next to Hu Jia Garden, where they often leave their footprints. Grandfather often told Tao that when he was a great-grandfather, there was a five-door property at home, a smoke cage and a willow cover, which wandered from the back door of Hualu Port to the side of Huang Tu Mountain in Hu Jia Garden. By the time pottery came out, Taoists were only allowed to enter the hospital three times. In Tao's memory, I still remember that the front door of their house is the "eight-character gate" and Gu Qiyuan, the "ancient celestial official", is a neighbor. A family with a "eight-character gate" was a big family at that time. Unfortunately, all this, together with the famous private garden Hu Jia Garden, has long since ceased to exist.