The word "Peach Blossom Spring" has become the poet's ideal world, just like a fairyland, unattainable. It was Tao Yuanming, a great poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who gave the world the dream of "Peach Blossom Garden". His famous poem "Peach Blossom Spring" (preface to his poem "Peach Blossom Spring") made the world forget "Peach Blossom Spring".
In Tao Yuanming's pen, the Peach Blossom Garden is on the other side of a rock at the end of the stream in Wuling (now Changde, Hunan), passing through the crevices, and a paradise is in sight. The land here is flat, the house is neat, my hair is yellow, and I am happy. People who live here don't know that there was a Han Dynasty after the Qin Dynasty and a A Jin Dynasty after the Han Dynasty. The fisherman who broke into people by mistake stayed here for a few days and had to go home. When you look for the Peach Blossom Garden again, you will never find it.
According to Tao Yuanming, the Peach Blossom Garden should be somewhere in Wuling, and he is not alone. In the Southern Dynasties, Wu Lingren, Huang Min and Wu Anpin both wrote articles, saying that a fisherman did appear in Wuling and found a peach blossom garden. Then, according to the above statement, the Peach Blossom Garden was located in Wuling, and it existed in the Jin Dynasty. However, according to the research of Li Daoyuan, a geographer in the Northern Dynasty, there was no Peach Blossom Garden in Yuannan County, so there was no Peach Blossom Garden in Jin Dynasty, because the Peach Blossom Garden in Wuling described by Huang Min and Wu Anpin was not the Peach Blossom Garden in Tao Yuanming's mouth.
So, where is Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden? Some people think that there is a valley in Lushan, Tao Yuanming's hometown, with flat terrain and pleasant scenery, which is quite like the Peach Blossom Garden in the Peach Blossom Garden. There is also a Tao, whose ancestors were indeed Tao Yuanming. Perhaps it was Tao Yuanming who used the scenery here to make up the wonderland of Wuling Taoyuan. Although there is evidence, there is no historical data to confirm this statement, so it can only be used as a speculation.
Some people think that Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Garden" is in Zhushan County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province. Zhushan County is located in the mountainous area of northwest Hubei, with lush trees and steep terrain. According to ancient records, only Zhushan County was named Wuling 1000 years ago, and there was Taoyuan Village in Jin Dynasty. Take a small wooden boat from Boyugou, taoyuan village, guandu town, and go upstream along the Blocking River (called Wuling River in ancient times) to see a lonely mountain. Behind the mountain is the Wuling gorge, which is less than two meters wide. On both sides are cliffs hundreds of meters high. There is a glimmer of hope. As Tao Yuanming described, "there is a small mouth in the mountain, and if there is light, it seems." Down the river, you can reach the Little Wuling Gorge, where the scenery is excellent and there is a natural village, namely Taoyuan Village. According to the similarity of scenery, Zhushan County is really like "Peach Blossom Garden".
So, is Zhushan County the correct address of Taoyuan? Not exactly. Su Dongpo also questioned Wuling Peach Blossom Garden. Su believes that if the Peach Blossom Garden was really in Wuling, it would have become a place where people fought for life and death, and it would not have been explored for so many years without results.
There is a saying put forward by historian Chen Yinque. He said that the "Peach Blossom Garden" recorded earlier in history is the ancient Taolin, which is located in the upper reaches of Hongnong or Luoshui in the ancient north. There is a similar record in Zhongshan Jing. It is said that this is the place where Zhou Wuwang attacked the Shang Dynasty to raise cattle. He believes that the living environment of Xanadu in Tao Yuanming's works is very similar to the architectural environment of Baozhai, and the description content is very similar to Tanshanwu.
"Tanshanwu" was occupied by Dai, the general of Emperor Wu. It is located in Tanshan Mountain near Luoshui, where there is a place called Huang Tianyuan, and there is a "Taolin" near Huang Tianyuan, which is the prototype of Taohuayuan. Teacher Chen said that Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Garden" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is fictional, and the prototype of its description should refer to the Peach Blossom Garden in Luoshui, while people living in Taoyuan should avoid the sufferings of the former Qin Dynasty, not the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, "Rong Di", "thieves and bandits" and other "terrorist organizations" ran around, burning, killing and looting, and people did not rely on each other, thus avoiding Rong Di's suffering in the sword. According to the locked records of ancient books, the docks at that time were mostly built according to the risk of "piling stones and paving soil", which has existed since ancient times. The condition of building a dock fort must be that there are plains and valleys on the top of the mountain.
At present, there are more than 30 scenic spots claiming to be the Peach Blossom Garden all over the country, each with its own opinions, but none of them can prove that they are the "Peach Blossom Garden" described by Tao Yuanming.