Dynasty: Wei and Jin Dynasties
Author: Tao Yuanming
Original text:
During the Jin-Tai-Yuan period, Wu Lingren took fishing as his occupation. Walk along the stream and forget the distance. Suddenly I met the peach blossom forest and grabbed the shore for hundreds of steps. There are no miscellaneous trees in it. Grass is delicious and English is colorful, which makes fishermen very different. If you go any further, you will want to be poor.
If there is no water in the forest, make a mountain. The mountain has a small mouth and seems to have light. Leave the ship and enter through the mouth. Only by being narrow at first can we understand people. Take a few steps and you will be suddenly enlightened. The land is flat and spacious, so is the house. There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo. The traffic in the building is so busy that chickens and dogs hear each other. Some men and women dressed like strangers. The yellow hair hangs low and enjoys itself.
Seeing the fisherman, he was shocked and asked him what he had not done. Answer it. You have to go home and set up wine to kill chickens for dinner. When the village heard about this man, Xian came to inquire. Since Master Yunzu escaped from the Qin Dynasty, he led his wife to this desperate situation and did not return, so he was separated from outsiders. You ask what this world is, and I don't know if there are any Han Chinese, regardless of Wei and Jin Dynasties. This man speaks every word with a sigh. The others went home, eating and drinking. Stop for a few days and resign. There is a saying in China: "The humanity of outsiders is not satisfactory." (Every other job: isolation)
Help the road when you get off the boat, and you are determined everywhere. And the county, Yi Taishou, said so. The satrap means to send someone with him to find what he wants, get lost, get lost.
Liu Ziji, a noble family, heard about it and gladly did it. If you fail, you find the disease, and then you lose interest.
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During the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man in Wuling who made a living by fishing. One day, he rowed along the stream and forgot the distance. Suddenly, I found a peach forest. There are no other trees in the middle within a few hundred steps on both sides of the stream. The grass is bright and beautiful, and there are many fallen flowers on the ground. Fishermen feel very strange about this. I walked on, trying to reach the end of the forest.
The end of Taolin is the source of the stream. The fisherman found a hill with a small hole, which seemed to be lit. The fisherman gave up the boat and got in through the hole. At first, the cave was very narrow, allowing only one person to pass through; After dozens of steps, it suddenly became open and bright. There are flat and wide land, rows of neat houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, bamboo forests and other plants. The path in the field is intertwined, and the cock crows and dogs bark one after another. People who come and go in the fields to farm and work, men and women wear the same clothes as people outside. The old man and the children are very happy and have a good time.
When the villagers saw the fisherman, they were very surprised and asked him where he came from. The fisherman answered everything he knew in detail. The villagers invited the fisherman to their home, treated him to drink and killed the chicken to cook. When people in the village heard about such a person, they all came to inquire about the news. They themselves said that their ancestors brought their wives, children and neighbors to this isolated place in order to avoid the war in the Qin Dynasty, and never went out from here again, so they cut off contact with people outside the Peach Blossom Garden. People here asked what dynasty it was, but they didn't know there was a Han dynasty, let alone Wei and Jin dynasties. The fisherman told them everything he knew in detail. After listening, everyone sighed. The rest invited the fisherman to their own home and treated him with food and wine. After staying for a few days, the fisherman said goodbye to the villagers. People in the village told him: "(The situation here) is not worth telling outside people."
After (the fisherman) came out, he found his boat and went back the same way, marking everywhere. He went to the county, visited the satrap and told the story. The satrap immediately sent someone to follow him, looking for the marks he had made before, and finally got lost and couldn't find the way to the Peach Blossom Garden.
There is a man named Liu Ziji in Nanyang, who is a noble scholar. Hearing the news, he happily planned to go to Taohuayuan. But it didn't happen, and he soon died of illness. Since then, no one has been to the Peach Blossom Garden.