1. The poem "Peach Blossom Temple under the Peach Blossom Tree" comes from "Song of Peach Blossom Temple" by Tang Yin, a writer of the Ming Dynasty. The whole poem is:
Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, peach blossoms There is a peach blossom fairy in the nunnery.
The Peach Blossom Fairy planted peach trees and folded flower branches for wine money.
When you are sober, you just sit in front of flowers; when you are drunk, you have to sleep under flowers.
Day after day after flowering, drunkenly and awake year after year.
I don’t want to bow in front of carriages and horses, but I want to die of old age and spend time drinking wine.
The chariot, dust and horses are enough for the rich, and the wine-gold twigs are for the poor.
If you compare wealth to poverty, one is on the ground and the other is in the sky.
If the poor and the lowly were compared to a chariot and a horse, he would have to drive and I would have nothing to do.
The world laughs at me for being crazy, but I laugh at the fact that the world can’t see through it.
2. Introduction to the work
"Song of Peach Blossom Temple" is a classic poem by Tang Yin (alias Bohu), a famous painter, writer and poet in the Ming Dynasty. "Peach Blossom Temple Song" is the most famous one among Tang Yin's poems. It is a work of self-expression, self-condemnation and warning to the world.
The whole poem depicts two scenes, one is the life scene of high officials and rich people in the Han Dynasty, and the other is the life scene of Tang Yin himself in the Ming Dynasty.
The poet compares himself to the Peach Blossom Immortal in the first eight lines, describing a happy life of lingering in flowers and wine and getting drunk again after waking up. The eight sentences in the middle express a life attitude of being contented and contented without worldly fame and wealth by comparing oneself with the wealthy. The last four sentences point out the main idea and show the world that don't take your seemingly upside-down and wild advice as a joke. In fact, everyone in the world is obscured by fame and fortune and cannot face life soberly. The last two sentences gather the whole poem together, and they are suddenly used as adverbials in the midst of cynicism, which is alarming and sad.
The whole poem compares itself with the carefree Peach Blossom Fairy, expressing one's true heart with a vulgar and negative side in the ordinary reality, with a cynical mood.
3. Introduction to the author
Tang Yin (March 6, 1470 - January 7, 1524) was born on the fourth day of February in the sixth year of Chenghua and died in the second year of Jiajing December 2nd. His courtesy name was Bohu, later changed to Ziwei, and his nickname was Liuru, the layman, the master of Taohua Nunnery, Tang Sheng of Lu State, the immortal official of Fugitive Zen, etc. He was a native of Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili, and a famous painter, calligrapher and poet in the Ming Dynasty.
In paintings, together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying, they are called the "Four Schools of Wu Clan", also known as the "Four Schools of Ming Dynasty". In poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhenqing, he is known as the "Four Talents in Wuzhong".