Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden (selected from Tao Yuanming's collected works) was the fishery in Wu Lingren during the Jin-Taiyuan period. Walk along the stream and forget the distance. Suddenly I met the peach blossom forest and grabbed the shore for hundreds of steps. There are no miscellaneous trees in it, and the grass is delicious and colorful. Fishermen are very different, so they move on and want to become poor. If there is no water in the forest, make a mountain. The mountain has a small mouth and seems to have light. Leave the ship and enter through the mouth. Only by being narrow at first can we understand people. Take a few steps and you will be suddenly enlightened. The land is flat and spacious, so is the house. There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo. The traffic in the building is so busy that chickens and dogs hear each other. Some men and women dressed like strangers. The yellow hair hangs low and enjoys itself.
Seeing the fisherman, he was shocked and asked him what he had not done. Answer it. You have to go home and set up wine to kill chickens for dinner. When the village heard about this man, Xian came to inquire. Since Master Yunzu escaped from the Qin Dynasty, he led his wife to this desperate situation and did not return, so he was separated from outsiders. You ask what this world is, and I don't know if there are any Han Chinese, regardless of Wei and Jin Dynasties. This man speaks every word with a sigh. I went home and they all ate and drank. Stop for a few days and resign. There is a saying in China: "The humanity of outsiders is not satisfactory." Help the road when you get off the boat, and you are determined everywhere. And the county, Yi Taishou said so. The satrap means to send someone with him to find what he wants, get lost, get lost.
Liu Ziji, a noble family, heard about it and gladly did it. If you fail, you will find the disease. Nobody took care of it after that. In the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man in Wuling County who made a living by fishing. One day, he rowed along the stream and forgot the distance of the road. Suddenly, I found a peach blossom forest, which grows hundreds of steps on both sides of the strait. There are no other trees, flowers and plants are fresh and beautiful, and flowers are falling. The fisherman was surprised. Keep walking, want to go to the end of the forest. At the end of the forest is the source of the stream, so there is a hill with a small hole, which seems to be faintly lit. So the fisherman left the boat and got in through the hole. At first, it was very narrow and only one person was allowed to pass. After dozens of steps, it suddenly became open and bright. The land here is flat and wide, the houses are neat, and there are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo. The paths in the field are intertwined, and chickens crow and dogs bark. There people come and go to farm and work, and men and women dress like the world outside the Peach Blossom Garden. Old people and children are very at ease and happy. People in the Peach Blossom Garden were surprised to see the fisherman and asked him where he came from. The fisherman answered his questions in detail, and he was invited to his house to entertain him with wine and chicken. When people in the village heard that there was such a person, they all came to inquire about the news. They themselves said that their ancestors led their wives, children and neighbors to this isolated place in order to avoid the war in the Qin Dynasty, so they stopped going out, so they cut off contact with outsiders. People in Taohuayuan asked what dynasty it was, but they didn't know there was a Han Dynasty, let alone Wei and Jin Dynasties. The fisherman told them what he had heard in detail, and everyone in the village sighed. The rest invited the fisherman to their home, and they all served him wine and food. After a few days, the fisherman took leave and left. The people here said to the fisherman, "The situation here is not worth telling people outside!" " "After the fisherman left the Peach Blossom Garden, he found his boat and went back along the old road, marking everywhere. When I arrived in the county, I met the magistrate and told my own experience. The satrap immediately sent someone to follow him, looking for the mark he had made before, but he got lost and couldn't find the way to the Peach Blossom Garden. Liu Ziji, a noble hermit from Nanyang, heard about it and happily planned to go. Didn't come true, and soon died of illness. Since then, no one has been to the Peach Blossom Garden.
Appreciate:
At the beginning of the article, the beautiful and quiet peach blossom forest, with "lush grass and blooming flowers", foreshadows a simple and natural world. There, everything is so simple and beautiful, there is no tax, no war, no fame and intrigue. I can't even hear a little noise. The relationship between people is so peaceful and sincere. The author did not say the reason for all this, but vaguely revealed the news from the sentence "I don't know why there are Han people, no matter Wei and Jin dynasties": in the final analysis, it is because no ruling group stands above the people and attacks each other for personal gain. This imaginary world of Taoyuan is undoubtedly fascinating to people who live in the real world of hypocrisy, darkness, frequent wars and constant bloodshed. The author's simple brushwork appropriately expresses the breath of the Peach Blossom Garden, which makes the article more appealing. Of course, this ideal state did not exist in the reality at that time, but the author artistically showed the style of Datong society through his conception of Datong society, which was a spiritual sustenance of dissatisfaction with the dark reality.
Most of the families in Taohuayuan are mainly cadres (it runs within the family). Among them, men and women dress like strangers. My hair is drooping and I am happy. " This can be seen from the words "men and women", "yellow hair" and "crying".
The structure of the article is also quite ingenious. The author borrows the novel style and unfolds the story with a fisherman's experience as a clue. The account at the beginning, the time and the fisherman's native place are all written with confidence, as if they were true. This shortens the psychological distance between readers and works, and introduces readers from the real world to the dreamland of peach blossoms. On the contrary, if the beginning is "part of the intangible world", readers will feel far away and the appeal of the work will be greatly reduced. The Absence of Human Nature of Outsiders and the fisherman's return and lost direction to what he wants have brought readers back to the real world from this hazy and wandering world, and their hearts are still full of attachment to it. At the end of the article, the rules of Nanyang Liu Ziji failed, which made the whole article more interesting.