More than 1,600 years ago, Tao Yuanming, the great poet of the Jin Dynasty, wrote the "Xanadu" in "Peach Blossom Spring", which is 0.5 kilometers north of Youyang County. It fascinates literati and poets, and is an excellent place for leisure, experience, and ancient exploration.
Standing outside the cave, you can see that the cave is open to the sky, which makes people feel "as if there is light". The stream flows out of the cave, with peach trees on the banks and colorful fallen flowers. The four characters "Taikou Collection" on the cliff inscribed by the ancient Youyang Zhoumu in the cave are powerful. Passing through the deep Taoyuan Cave, a world suddenly opens up before your eyes. The land in the cave is flat, with criss-crossing roads, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, and dotted with villages. Surrounded by caves and mostly cliffs, it seems to be isolated from the outside world. There are towering pine peaks, stone chambers with books, flying springs sprinkling jade, jade plates with fairy traces, black dragons protecting slips, turtles and cranes, peach streams flowing red, and woven haze. Waiting for the Eight Views of Taoyuan. Since ancient times, because "barbarians did not leave the cave and Han people did not enter", the scenic spot lay dormant for more than 1,600 years and no one cared about it.
In the seventh year of Yongli reign in the Ming Dynasty, Wen An, a scholar from Dongge University, came to You and wrote in the "preface" to the Yongcuixuan Poetry Collection written by Ran Qibi, the envoy to Xuanyouyang in Youyang: "You are rich in famous places. Yu Cen (Qi Biao) pointed to his other business, and as far as I could see, he got two of them. The first one was the Great You Cave. The cave could be hundreds of miles wide, and one gate opened up to the sky, and he got dozens of acres of land. There is a stream flowing out of the cave in Yuyuyu Cen. Thousands of peach blossoms are planted there, so that the spring breeze is beautiful and the peach blossoms are flowing by the water, waiting for those who want to see it. "It can be seen that Dayou Cave Peach Blossom Spring was in the Ming Dynasty. It has a large scale and is a scenic spot in Youyang Prefecture. There is a poem that goes: "The water in front of the cave is long and thin, and the peach blossoms in the cave are gradually dying. Manqian is not coming and the fisherman is gone, and the Taoist is leaning on the stone railing."
According to the "General Chronicle of Youyang Zhili Prefecture" "The shape of it is not the same as what Yuan Ming wrote about the Peach Blossom Spring." "General Chronicles of Sichuan Province" also records: "The Han Dynasty in Youyang belongs to the moved mausoleum of Wuling County, where the fisherman went to Tianjin, and Anzhi is not here. "Domestic and foreign experts and scholars have argued from six aspects: geography, route, scenery, history, distance, environment, etc., and unanimously believe that this is the prototype of Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring".
Taohuayuan integrates Taoyuan culture, Ba culture, ethnic culture, toast culture, and Taoyuan scenery. It has passed the on-site evaluation of the national AAA tourist area. It is the authentic relic of "Xanadu" and is isolated from the world. "Wonderland on Earth" is a wonderful flower in Wuling Youzhou. Through the in-depth development and restoration of the scenic spot, the peaceful pastoral scenery of seclusion and simplicity has been fully demonstrated. The peach blossoms in spring, the gentle breeze in summer, the orange valleys in autumn, and the snow-capped winters all attract countless tourists to come here for scientific research, nostalgia, and sightseeing.