1. Peach Blossom Spring depicts that beautiful, classless, exploitative society where everyone is self-reliant, self-sufficient, peaceful, tranquil and contented. This is in stark contrast to the dark society at that time, because Tao Yuan Ming was indifferent by nature and expressed his ideals. At the same time, it was an ideal society that the working people yearned for. It was not only pursuit and yearning, but also silent dissatisfaction and resistance to reality.
2. Introduction to the original text
"The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" is one of the representative works of Tao Yuanming, a great scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is the preface to "Poems of Peach Blossom Spring" and is selected from "The Collection of Tao Yuanming". Using the clue of the whereabouts of the Wuling fishermen to connect the reality and the ideal state, through the description of the peace, happiness, freedom and equality of Peach Blossom Land, it shows the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with the real life at that time.
3. Creative background
When he was young, Tao Yuanming had the ambition to "help the common people". However, the era he lived in was when the Jin and Song Dynasties changed hands. The Eastern Jin Dynasty was extremely corrupt. They blindly surrendered to the outside world and settled in a corner of the Yangtze River. The ruling group lived a debauched life, fought against each other internally, warlords fought for years, and taxation and corvee were heavy, which deepened the exploitation and oppression of the people. In the turbulent years when the country was on the verge of collapse, Tao Yuanming's ambitions could not be realized at all. At the same time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty inherited the old system, implemented the clan system, and protected the privileges of the nobles and bureaucrats of the high-ranking gentry, resulting in intellectuals from small and medium-sized landowners having no opportunity to display their talents. A man like Tao Yuanming, whose ancestors and fathers had only held one official position as a prefect, and whose family had already declined, would of course have "unrewardable ambitions." In addition, he has an upright character, is honest and honest, and is unwilling to grovel to cling to the powerful. As a result, he has a sharp conflict with the dirty and dark real society, and develops an incompatible feeling. In the first year of Yixi (405), he firmly and resolutely resigned as magistrate of Pengze County, which had only been in office for 81 days, and finally broke with the rulers. He retired to the countryside for a long time and worked in remote fields.
Although he is far away in the world, he still cares about national political affairs. In June of the second year of Yuanxi (420), Liu Yu deposed Emperor Gong of Jin as King Lingling and changed his reign name to "Yongchu". The following year, Liu Yu adopted conspiracy methods and smothered Emperor Gong of Jin with a quilt. These cannot help but stir up waves in Tao Yuanming's thoughts. Starting from his inherent Confucian concepts, he became dissatisfied with Liu Yu's regime and deepened his hatred of the real society. However, he was unable to change and was unwilling to interfere with this status quo, so he had no choice but to express his feelings through creation, creating a beautiful realm that was opposite to the dirty and dark society, so as to express his political ideals and beautiful tastes. "Peach Blossom Spring" was produced under this background.
4. Introduction to the author
Tao Yuanming (about 365-427), whose courtesy name was Yuanliang, was born in Chaisang, Xunyang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). He was the third literary writer in the history of Chinese literature. A pastoral poet. At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, he was a politician, early poet, poet, pastoral poet, and reclusive poet. After he retired to seclusion, he wrote a large number of pastoral poems and became the founder of the landscape pastoral poetry school. He named himself Mr. Wuliu and changed his name to Qian in his later years. After his death, his relatives and friends privately gave him the posthumous title of Mr. Jingjie, and he was known as Mr. Jingjie in the world. Because he likes to drink, he is also known as Tao Yuanming, the Saint of Wine. Tao Yuanming was born in a declining official family. In order to realize his ideal ambition of "helping the common people", he kept trying, being disappointed, and finally despaired. There is "Tao Yuanming Collection". Tao Yuanming's poems, poems and prose have a unique style and extremely high attainments in art. They integrate pastoral poetry and open up a new realm for classical poetry. The works are plain and natural, based on real feelings, which influenced the creation of poetry in the Tang Dynasty.