The original site of the museum is Taojing Festival (Yuanming) Temple. The temple was originally located in the left front foot of Yangshan Jingjie Tomb, 25 kilometers south of the county seat. It was rebuilt in the 12th to 17th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1533 ~ 1538), with the style of Jiangnan residence, covering an area of about 250 square meters. According to the original appearance, it was moved to this site on 1982, and the original sculpture was built in the temple.
Statues, plaques, couplets and stone carvings have all been restored. In 2005, when Tao Yuanming was born 1640, Jiujiang County invested more than 300,000 yuan to restore the memorial hall according to its original appearance. The restored Tao Yuanming Memorial Hall is divided into Tao Mausoleum, Sacrificial Temple, Guiting and other scenic spots.
Tao Yuanming, a great poet and thinker in the Jin and Song Dynasties, was renamed Qian in his later years. After his death, relatives and friends celebrated Jingjie privately. The Eastern Jin Dynasty Xunyang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province) was a Chai Sang. Tao Yuanming was born in a ruined official family. Great-grandfather Tao Kan, the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, made outstanding military achievements. He was an official of Fu, the commander-in-chief of the military affairs of the eight countries, and Jing and Jiang were the secretariat of Changsha. Grandfather Tao Mao and father Tao Yi are both governors. When I was a child, my family declined, my father died at the age of eight, my mother died of illness at the age of twelve, and my mother and sister lived alone. Most orphans and widows live in their grandfather Meng Jia's house. Meng Jia is a contemporary celebrity. "If you don't share the same sky, you won't brag for many years and you will never be happy." . Good wine, more without chaos; As for forgetting pride, no one. "("Biography of Meng Fujun, General of the Western Expedition in the Jin Dynasty ") In the late Yuan and Ming Dynasties," deliberately lived in the world, and many people imitated their ancestors. "In the future, his personality and accomplishment are largely the legacy of his grandfather. Grandfather's family has a lot of books, which provides him with the conditions to read ancient books and understand history. In the Jin Dynasty, the literati took Zhuang and Lao as their ancestors and copied the Six Classics. He not only studied Lao Zi and Zhuangzi like ordinary literati, but also studied the Six Classics of Confucianism and "different books" such as literature, history and mythology. Influenced by the ideological trend of the times and the family environment, he accepted two different thoughts of Confucianism and Taoism, and cultivated two different interests: "aiming high" and "loving the mountains". Tao Yuanming rarely has the ambition to "escape from the four seas" ("Miscellaneous Poems"). He was filial to Taiyuan for eighteen years (393). With the desire of "great help for life", he served as a wine sacrifice in Jiangzhou. His personality, talent and achievements are quite similar to those of Tao Kan, and he once had a good impression on him. But soon after the curtain rises, Emperor Wu of Song killed Diao Kui and the innocent Wang Yu and his son in order to cut off the dissidents. And with an affair, Wang Shu, a confidant of Huan Xuan who everyone thought should be killed, was appointed as an important official such as Shangshulu and Yangzhou Secretariat. These dark phenomena disappointed him. Tao Yuanming's thirteen-year official career ended with his resignation from pengze county. These thirteen years are the thirteen years in which he worked hard, disappointed and finally despaired in order to realize his ideal and ambition of "helping the poor". Finally, the poem "Return to Xi Ci" shows the determination to break with the upper ruling class and not do as the Romans do. Tao Yuanming resigned and returned to his hometown, living a life of "land to the tiller, self-financing". His wife Zhai is like him. She is happy and humble. " Her husband plows in front and her wife hoes in the back. "Working together to maintain her life is closely related to the working people. At the beginning of returning to the field, life was ok. He is a heavy drinker and will get drunk when he drinks it. When friends visit, no matter how high or low, as long as there is wine at home, they will drink together. In his later years, his life became poorer and poorer, and some friends offered to give him money to help him. Sometimes, he can't help asking for a loan. He resigned from his post and returned to his hometown for 22 years. He has been living a poor and rural life, but when he is old, his interest in keeping poor and honest is getting stronger and stronger. In the middle of September in the fourth year of Yuan Jia (427), when he was still conscious, he wrote three elegies for himself. In the last two sentences of the third poem, he said, "What if you die? It shows that he is so natural about death.