Song of Peach Blossom Temple
Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, Peach Blossom Fairy in Peach Blossom Temple.
The Peach Blossom Fairy planted peach trees and picked peach flowers in exchange for wine money.
When I’m sober, I just come and sit in front of the flowers; when I’m drunk, I come and sleep under the flowers.
Half awake and half drunk day after day, flowers fall and bloom year after year.
I hope that I will die of old age among the flowers and wine, and I don’t want to bow in front of the carriage.
The chariot, dust, and horses are enough for the rich, but the wine-cup branches are destined to be poor and humble.
If you compare the rich and the poor, one is on the ground and the other is in the sky.
If flowers and wine were compared to chariots and horses, he would have to drive and I would have nothing to do.
Others laugh at me for being crazy, but I laugh at others because they can’t see through it.
There are no tombs of heroes from the Five Tombs, and there are no flowers or wine to cultivate the fields.
"Peach Blossom Temple Song" is a seven-character ancient poem written by Tang Yin, a writer in the Ming Dynasty. In this poem, the poet refers to himself as a peach blossom fairy, and uses "aging and dying among flowers and wine" and "bowing in front of chariots and horses" to refer to two completely different lifestyles. The rich and the poor each have their own losses, forming a clear and strong contrast. In contrast, it shows his true heart with a vulgar and negative side in his ordinary reality, with a cynical attitude. The whole poem has clear layers and simple language, but it contains infinite artistic tension, giving people continuous aesthetic enjoyment and a strong sense of identity.