Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring" depicts a group of people who left the chaos of the world behind and formed their own isolated community where "young and old alike were happy and content."
陶淵明的〈桃花源記〉，描寫一群為了避亂世而遺世獨立之人，「黃髮垂髫，並怡然自樂」。