The example comes from Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden.
The full text is as follows:
Tao Yuanming
During the Jin, Thai and Yuan Dynasties, Wu Lingren took fishing as its profession. Walk along the stream and forget the distance. Suddenly, when I met the peach blossom forest, I caught the shore hundreds of steps away. There are no miscellaneous trees in it. The grass is delicious and the English is rich and colorful, which makes the fishermen very different. If you go any further, you want to be poor.
If there is no water in the forest, it will get a mountain, and the mountain has a small mouth, which seems to have light. Leave the ship and enter through the mouth. Only when you are narrow-minded at first can you understand people. After a few steps, 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 busy, and the chickens and dogs hear each other. Among them, men and women dress like strangers. Yellow hair hangs down and enjoys itself.
He was shocked to see the fisherman and asked him what he had never done. Answer it. You have to go home and kill chickens with wine. The village heard about this man, so he came to ask. Because the ancestors of Yun avoided the chaos of the Qin Dynasty, they caused their wives to fall into such a desperate situation and did not return, so they were separated from outsiders. When you ask what the world is, you don't know whether there are Han people, no matter Wei and Jin Dynasties. The man's voice is full of sighs. The rest of the people went home. They all ate and drank. Stop for a few days and resign. China has a saying: "It is not enough for outsiders to be humanitarian." (Other work: isolation)
When you get off the boat, you will help the road and be firm everywhere. And the county, Yi Taishou, said so. Taishou means to send someone with him to find what he wants, get lost, get lost.
Liu Ziji, a noble and practical man, heard about it and gladly did it. If you fail, you will find the disease, and then you will lose interest.
The idea is as follows: the author made up this story with sustenance. He lived in an environment of war and strife in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty. After middle age, he lived in seclusion in the countryside for a long time, and had a deeper understanding of the reality in the countryside and a personal experience of the people's wishes, so he conceived his ideal society-Xanadu. In this society, there is no oppression, exploitation and harassment; Everyone takes part in what they can, the elderly and children live happily, and people are extremely harmonious and friendly. However, the author clearly sees that such an ideal society could not be realized under the conditions at that time. Therefore, in this article, he not only showed this ideal social specimen through the fisherman's eyes, but also denied its existence through the fisherman's repeated search-at least not in this real world.
Through the description of the peaceful, happy, free and equal life in Peach Blossom Garden, it shows the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with real life.
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