táo huā xī
Taohuaxi
cháo dài: táng dài
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty
zuò zhě: zhāng xù
Author: Zhang Xu
yǐn yǐn fēi qiáo gé yě yān, shí jī xī pàn wèn yú chuán.
The flying bridge is faintly separated by wild smoke, and fishing boats are on the west bank of Shiji.
táo huā jìn rì suí liú shuǐ, dòng zài qīng xī hé chù biān.
The peach blossoms follow the flowing water all day long. Where is the hole beside the clear stream.
Vernacular translation:
A high bridge appeared through the clouds and smoke, asking about fishing boats on the west bank of the rock.
Peach blossoms flow with the water all day long. Which side of the clear stream is the entrance of Taoyuan Cave?
Extended information
"Peach Blossom Creek" is a landscape poem created by Zhang Xu, a calligrapher and poet in the Tang Dynasty, based on the artistic conception of Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring". This poem describes the beautiful scenery of Peach Blossom Creek and the author's inquiries about fishermen, expressing a mood of yearning for paradise and pursuing a better life. The poem is written from far away, describing the deep and secluded valley, the mist, the mist, and the fairyland. Then the camera moves closer, describing the peach blossoms and flowing water, the light fishing boats, asking the fishermen, and looking for the peach garden. The whole poem has a graceful conception and long emotional charm, creating a deep and picturesque realm full of interest.
Zhang Xu (about 675-about 750), also known as Bogao and Jiming, was a Han nationality and a native of Wuxian County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) in the Tang Dynasty. He was alive during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods and served as Changshu County magistrate. Wei, Jinwu has a long history.
Famous for cursive script, Li Bai’s poetry and Pei Min’s sword dance are known as the “Three Wonders”. The poems are also unique, and are famous for their seven unique features. They are ranked among the Eight Immortals in Drinking with Li Bai, He Zhizhang and others. Together with He Zhizhang, Zhang Ruoxu and Bao Rong, they are known as the "Four Scholars in Wuzhong". Calligraphy is as famous as Huai Su. Li Zhimin, a professor at Peking University and the founder of the introduction of the monument into the grass, commented: "Zhang Xu understood the strange state from 'The solitary peng vibrates on its own, sitting on the startled sand', and he also understood the low-spirited flying back from Lady Gongsun's sword dance. Like this, he became a master of Kuangcao because he took nature as his teacher and his profound ink skills."
"The Peach Blossom Spring" is one of the representative works of Tao Yuanming, a writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is the preface to "Poems of the Peach Blossom Spring". Selected from "The Collection of Tao Yuanming". This article uses the clue of the whereabouts of Wuling fishermen to connect the reality and the ideal state. Through the description of the peace, happiness, freedom and equality of Peach Blossom Spring, it expresses the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with the real life at that time.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Peach Blossom Creek