When I was a child, I occasionally heard people mention the story of Xanadu, but I don't know the specific details. It's just a looming yearning for that beautiful scene, an inexplicable yearning.
Peach Blossom Garden is one of Tao Yuanming's representative works. He was an outstanding poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China, and his poems became the precious heritage of Chinese classical libraries, among which Peach Blossom Spring and Peach Blossom Spring Poems were the most outstanding and became the wonderful works of generations. Peach Blossom Garden is a story-telling work of art, which expresses Tao Yuanming's pursuit of an ideal society.
He wrote this fictional story in order to pin his dissatisfaction with the real society at that time and his yearning for a better life. He is a hermit. When writing this poem, he had passed away and lived in seclusion in the countryside for more than ten years. He was born in a poor family. Although he was ambitious when he was young, his ambition was not rewarded. Since he became sensible, he has experienced many social and political changes and turbulence. The fraud, filth and darkness of society made him feel suffocated and resentful. Honest and clean, an honest official, does not want to bow down and be a powerful person, so he is out of tune with the dirty and dark real society. Later, he resigned and retired to the countryside, living a simple life, working at sunrise every day and resting at sunset.
In Tao Yuanming's pen, "Peach Blossom Garden" presents us with "flat and spacious land, houses like it, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry and bamboo." Traffic in buildings. Chickens and dogs listen to each other. "The author's handwriting is concise and easy to read. A few simple words vividly describe the quiet and beautiful natural environment of Taoyuan, the scene of being relaxed and happy, the long green water, the peach forest on the shore, the flowers flying all over the sky, and the fragrant and tender grass, which are pleasing to the eye and infinite yearning. The main body and core of Peach Blossom Garden is to express dissatisfaction with the society at that time through the historical facts of "avoiding the chaos of Qin Dynasty" and the enthusiastic pursuit of the ideal realm arising from it. The author touched the hearts of millions of readers in Qian Qian through vivid descriptions, mythical fictional stories and beautiful passion. Finally, the author uses suspense to imply that such a perfect ideal state is nothing more than the author's pursuit of freedom and bliss.
So when I saw Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden, I couldn't help being deeply moved by the scenery of this paradise, the people who live and work in peace and contentment, and the happy and peaceful life. Without exploitation and oppression, everyone has the right to freedom and equality. They work at sunrise, rest at sunset and live a quiet life. All this makes me deeply yearn for it now. Although this is a fictional world, it gives me unlimited imagination. ...
I recommend it carefully.