Abstract: The land of xunyang of Jiangzhou between the jing prefecture and the yang prefecture where Tao Yuanming lived was hisorically the confluence of the jingchu and wuyue cultural rings and the radiation centre of the  culture.tao yuanming lived in the late Jin dynasty and the early song dynasty when the Jiangdong regional culture was shaped into being,and then popular meatphysics and the old confucianism were in collision exitation.All this had a deep influence upon the writer's life and literary creation.

Key words: Tao Yuanming, regional culture, metaphysics, confucianism, seclusion