Trace element and oxygen isotope geochemical studies of the metamorphic veins and their host metasedimentary rocks of the Zhoutan Group at two localities, Xiangshan and Yihuang, in central Jiangxi Province have been conducted in this paper. The results show that the metamorphic quartz veins inherited the REE and oxygen isotope geochemical characteristics from their host rocks, suggesting that the vein-forming fluids were from the host rocks. Additionally, trace element pairs Zr-Hf,Nb-Ta,Y-Ho and U-Th of the veins have to certain degree fractionation being little different from those of their host rocks. This also indicates that the veins are the products of the fluids. The metamorphic veins within the Zhoutan Group metasedimentary rocks were formed principally by lateral diffusion of the metamorphic fluids.