the Peach Garden
During the Jin-Tai-Yuan period, Wu Lingren took fishing as his occupation. Walk along the stream and forget the distance. Suddenly I met the peach blossom forest and grabbed the shore for hundreds of steps. There are no miscellaneous trees in it. Grass is delicious and English is colorful, which makes fishermen very different. If you go any further, you will want to be poor.
If there is no water in the forest, make a mountain. The mountain has a small mouth and seems to have light. Leave the ship and enter through the mouth. Only by being narrow at first can we understand people. Take a few steps and you will be suddenly enlightened. The land is flat and spacious, so is the house. There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo. The traffic in the building is so busy that chickens and dogs hear each other. Some men and women dressed like strangers. The yellow hair hangs low and enjoys itself.
Seeing the fisherman, he was shocked and asked him what he had not done. Answer it. You have to go home and set up wine to kill chickens for dinner. When the village heard about this man, Xian came to inquire. Since Master Yunzu escaped from the Qin Dynasty, he led his wife to this desperate situation and did not return, so he was separated from outsiders. You ask what this world is, and I don't know if there are any Han Chinese, regardless of Wei and Jin Dynasties. This man speaks every word with a sigh. The others went home, eating and drinking. Stop for a few days and resign. There is a saying in China: "The humanity of outsiders is not satisfactory."
Help the road when you get off the boat, and you are determined everywhere. And the county, Yi Taishou, said so. The satrap means to send someone with him to find what he wants, get lost, get lost.
Liu Ziji, a noble family, heard about it and gladly did it. If you fail, you find the disease, and then you lose interest.
Vernacular translation
In the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man in Wuling County who made a living by fishing. One day, he sailed along the stream and forgot the distance. Suddenly I met a peach blossom forest, which grew on both sides of the stream and stretched for hundreds of steps. There are no other trees in the middle, the flowers are fresh and beautiful, and the fallen flowers are scattered on the ground. The fisherman was very surprised by this (the scenery in front of him) and continued to sail, trying to reach the end of the forest.
At the end of Taolin is the birthplace of the stream, so a mountain appears. There is a small hole in the mountain, which seems to be lit. So he got off the boat and went in through the hole. At first, the hole was very narrow, and only one person could pass through. After dozens of steps, it suddenly became open and bright. A flat and wide land, rows of neat houses. There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo forests. The path in the field is intertwined, and the crowing of chickens and dogs can be heard everywhere. People come and go in the fields, farming and working, and the clothes worn by men and women are exactly the same as the world outside the Peach Blossom Garden. Old people and children are very comfortable and happy, and they have a good time.
People in the village were surprised to see the fisherman and asked him where he came from. The fisherman gave a detailed answer. Someone in the village invited him to his house. Set a wine to kill the chicken and cook it for him. When people in the village heard about such a person, they all came to inquire about the news. They themselves said that their ancestors led their wives, children and neighbors to this isolated place in order to avoid the war in the Qin Dynasty, and never went out again, so they cut off contact with outsiders. They asked the fishermen what dynasty it was. They didn't even know about the Han Dynasty, let alone the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The fisherman told them everything he knew in detail, and they all sighed. The rest invited the fisherman to their home, and all took out wine and rice to entertain him. The fisherman stayed for a few days and said goodbye to the villagers. The people in the village said to him, "We are not worth telling outside people here!" "
After the fisherman came out, he found his boat and went back along the old road, marking everywhere. In the county, I went to the magistrate and reported this experience. The satrap immediately sent someone to follow him, looking for the marks he had made before, and finally lost his way and couldn't find the way to the Peach Blossom Garden.
Liu Ziji, a noble hermit from Nanyang, happily planned to go after hearing this. But it didn't happen, and soon he died of illness. Since then, I have never asked anyone on Taohuayuan Road.
Writing background
Tao Yuanming had the ambition of "helping the poor" when he was young. However, he lived in an era of changing owners in Jin and Song Dynasties. The Eastern Jin Dynasty was extremely corrupt, surrendered blindly to the outside world and settled in a corner of the rivers and lakes. The life of the ruling group is dissolute, civil strife continues, warlords have been fighting for years, and exorbitant taxes and levies have deepened the exploitation and oppression of the people. In the turbulent era when the country was on the verge of collapse, Tao Yuanming's ambition could not be realized at all. At the same time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty inherited the old system, implemented the door-door system, and protected the aristocratic bureaucratic privileges of aristocratic gentry, resulting in intellectuals from small and medium-sized landlords having no chance to display their talents. A poor man like Tao Yuanming, whose ancestors and fathers only held first-class official positions, had a premature decline in his family. Of course, he was "ambitious and dedicated." In addition, his personality is honest and frank, honest and honest, and he doesn't want to grovel and cling to the powerful, so he has a sharp contradiction with the dirty and dark real society and has a feeling of being out of place. In the first year of Yixi (405), he resolutely resigned from the Pengze county magistrate who had been in office for only 865,438+0 days, and finally got rid of the ruler, retired to the countryside and lived in seclusion for a long time.
Although he is biased from a distance, he still cares about state affairs. In June of the second year of Yuanxi (420), Emperor Wu of Song abolished Emperor Gong Jin as the king of Lingling and changed his title to "Yongchu". In the second year, Emperor Wu of Song conspired to suffocate Gong Jin with a quilt. These can't help but cause waves in Tao Yuanming's thoughts. Starting from the inherent Confucian concept, he became dissatisfied with Emperor Wu of Song's regime and deepened his hatred of the real society. But he can't change or interfere with this situation, so he has to express his feelings with the help of creation, and create a beautiful realm opposite to the dirty and dark society, in order to entrust his political ideals and good interests. The Peach Blossom Garden was produced under such a background.