Translation of Taohuaxi

Peach Blossom Creek [Tang Dynasty] Zhang Xu flew lightly over the Wild Smoke Bridge and asked about the fishing boat on the west bank of Shijie. Peach blossoms follow the water all day long, and the mouth of the peach garden is by the stream?

There are 300 Tang poems, including lyric translations and annotated translations. The valley is shrouded in clouds, and the Gao Qiao flying on the stream is looming; Standing on the west side of the rock, ask the fisherman who returned from fishing. The peach blossoms here drift endlessly with the running water all day. Isn't this the Peach Blossom Creek outside the Peach Blossom Garden? Do you know which side of Qingxi is the entrance of Taoyuan Cave?

Note Taohuaxi: Water name, at the foot of Taoyuan Mountain in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province. Flying Bridge: Gao Qiao. Rock: Rock accumulated in water or rock and deposit protruding from water. Fishing boat: a sentence from Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden. All-day: all-day, all-day cave: refers to the cave found by Wuling fishermen in Taohuayuan.

Appreciating the Peach Blossom Garden written by Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he invented an isolated place called Peach Blossom Garden. The Peach Blossom Garden he wrote "suddenly meets the Peach Blossom Forest, with hundreds of steps on the shore and no miscellaneous trees in it." The grass is delicious and the English is very colorful. " ..... If the forest runs out of its water source, it will get a mountain with a small mouth, as if there is light, it will leave the ship and enter through its mouth. "Inspired by this, Zhang Xu wrote this poem with the artistic conception of Taohuaxi in Tao Yuanming's works. This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Taohuaxi and the author's inquiry about fishermen, and expresses a feeling of longing for a paradise and pursuing a better life.

"The faint flying bridge is separated by wild smoke", and I began to write a vision: mountains and valleys, misty clouds; Looking through the clouds, the long bridge across the mountain stream is flickering, as if nothing had happened, as if flying in the void. How deep and mysterious this realm is, it is like entering a fairyland. Here, the static bridge contrasts with the floating wild smoke: the wild smoke makes the bridge static and moving, illusory and flying in the air; The bridge turns wild smoke into silence, just like hanging a gauze curtain. Looking at the bridge through this curtain makes people feel a kind of hazy beauty.

Creation background This poem was written in Tianbao period of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and it is a landscape poem written with Tao Qian Peach Blossom Garden as the artistic conception. At this time, the Tang dynasty has turned from prosperity to decline. Zhang Xu's mood when writing this poem is quite lovesick with Tao Yuanming's mood when writing Peach Blossom Garden.