Abstract: As an important part of the metamorphic fold basement on the western margin of the Yangtze block, the light metamorphic rock series of Kunyang Group has attracted much attention from experts for its formation and evolution mechanism.Taking the metamorphic rocks of Etouchang Formation, the representative stratum of Kunyang Group, as an example, this paper constrains the protolith type, provenance, sedimentation and tectonic environment background of the metamorphic rocks in the aspects of rock symbiotic association, petrographic markers and petrogeochemical.The micropaleontology and isotopic age of the metamorphic rocks indicate that the diagenetic age of the metamorphic rocks belongs to Late Mesoproterozoic, and the sedimentary facies and petrographic shows the characteristics of normal marine sedimentary.Comprehensive petrogeochemical analysis shows that the original rocks of metamorphic rocks were composed of graywacke and subgraywacke with some mudstone components, which were formed in the oxidative sedimentary environment of the shallow-littoral facies.The rocks experienced moderate weathering and leaching with lower rock maturity and leaching with lower rock maturity.The sediments mainly came from the tectonic active area of the upper crust, with the characteristics of single cycle sedimentary products in the active structural belt and experienced a certain degree of intracrustal geochemical differentiation.The main source of the sediments was the continental island arc type low aluminum TTG series volcanic rocks, with the intervention of part of the upper crust terrigenous materials.Furthermore, petrogeochemical characteristics also show that the metamorphic protolith mainly deposited in the passive continental margin tectonic environment.The authors hold that the metamorphic protoliths were probably formed in the residual basin in the late closure stage of Kunyang marine rift basin.