Taohuawu Taohua Temple, Taohuaguan Taohuaxian.
Peach Fairy nurtures peach trees and breaks flower branches for drinking.
When you wake up, you just sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you will sleep.
Before and after the flowers, day after day, drunk every year.
I don't want to bow in front of horses and chariots, but I want to die of old age.
Cars, dust and horses are interesting, and hops are poor.
If wealth is better than poverty, one is underground and the other is in heaven.
If you compare poverty to horses and chariots, he will have to drive away my leisure.
I can't see through the world laughing at me.
I remember the tombs of the five great heroes. There was no wine and no flowers to plow the fields.
Song of Peach Blossom Temple by Tang Yin in Ming Dynasty.
Translation:
There is a peach temple in Taohuawu, and there is a peach fairy below.
Peach Fairy planted peach trees and broke off peach branches to pay for drinks.
When you wake up, you just sit in front of the peach blossom. Sleep under the peach blossom when you are drunk.
Next to the peach blossom day after day, I was drunk and awake year after year.
I don't want to bow down in front of luxurious chariots and horses. I just want to spend my whole life enjoying flowers and drinking.
Running around by horse is the pleasure of the rich, while those who have no money look for wine, snuff.
If you compare wealth with poverty, it's a world of difference.
If the life of the poor is compared to the life of horses and chariots, what they get is the pain of running around, and what I get is leisurely happiness.
Everyone laughs at me for being crazy, and I laugh at them for being superficial.
I still remember that there were no flowers or wine in front of the tomb of the heroes of the Five Tombs, and now they have all been hoed into fields.
Extended data:
The two most prominent and impressive images in this poem are "flowers" and "wine". Peach Blossom was first seen in literary works, and Yao Tao, originally written in The Book of Songs Nan Zhou, was intended to express a free and unrestrained emotion. As soon as Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden came out, peach blossoms were more used to express their secluded feelings.
In ancient times, peach also had the meaning of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits. "Peach" is homophonic with "escape" because of its meaning of avoiding the world. In Tang Yin's poems, the image of "peach blossom" appears frequently.