1, yellow hair, and happy: men and women dress exactly like the world outside the Peach Blossom Garden, and the old and children are comfortable and happy.
Source: Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden at the end of Jin Dynasty and the beginning of Song Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original text: The crops and clothes of men and women are familiar to outsiders. The yellow hair hangs low and enjoys itself.
People come and go in the fields, farming and working, and men and women wear the same clothes as the world outside the Peach Blossom Garden. Old people and children are very comfortable and happy, and they have a good time.
2、? Cold and summer are easy to celebrate, and the beginning is the opposite: cold and summer exchange seasons, only once.
Source: Yugong Yishan by Liezi in the Warring States Period.
Shi Jing, the widow of my neighbor, left a man, so she began to help him. Cold and summer are easy to celebrate, and the beginning is the opposite.
Vernacular translation: Shi Jing's widow, a seven-or eight-year-old orphan, skipped to help him. Winter and summer change seasons, and you can go back and forth once.
3. The moss on the upper steps is green, and the curtain is green: the moss is green and grows to the upper steps; The grass is green and comes into view.
Source: From Liu Yuxi's Humble Room Inscription in the Tang Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original text: The moss on the stage is green, and the grass on the curtain is green. There is no Ding Bai who laughs and has a university.
Vernacular translation: the color of moss marks on the steps is green; The grass is green and reflected in the curtains. All the people who come here to talk and laugh are knowledgeable scholars, and there are no people with shallow knowledge.
4. No confusion in ears, no work: no music disturbing ears, no official documents making the body tired.
Source: From Liu Yuxi's Humble Room Inscription in the Tang Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original text: there is no doubt in the ears of silk and bamboo, and there is no overwork in the case. Zhuge Lu in Nanyang and Ting Yun Pavilion in West Shu. Kong Ziyun: What's wrong?
Vernacular translation: no music bothers the ears, no official documents are tiring. There is Zhuge Liang Caotang in Nanyang and Yangzi Yunting in West Shu. Confucius said, "What is so simple?"
5. I love the lotus that is muddy but not dyed, clear but not demon: I only love the lotus that is muddy but not dyed. It was washed in clean water, but it didn't look attractive.
Source: From Zhou Dun's "Love Lotus" in the Northern Song Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original text: Lotus leaves mud but is not stained, clear but not demon. Straight outside and straight inside, fragrant and clear, slim and graceful. It's ok from a distance, but it's not ridiculous.
I only like lotus flowers. It grows out of the mud, but it is not polluted. It was washed in clean water, but it didn't look attractive. Its stem runs through the middle, its shape is straight, it has no branches, and its fragrance spreads far and more fragrant. It stands straight and clean. You can look at it from a distance, but you can't play with it.
Extended data:
The creative background of Peach Blossom Garden;
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 took office only 8 1 day, and finally got rid of the ruler, retired to the countryside and lived in seclusion for a long time.
Although Tao Yuanming is far away in the Jianghu, 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. Peach Blossom Garden was written in this context.