1. Theme
"Peach Blossom Spring" depicts the peace, happiness, freedom and equality of life in Peach Blossom Spring, showing the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with real life.
2. General idea
During the Taiyuan period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man in Wuling County who made a living by fishing. One day, he was boating along the stream and forgot about the distance. Suddenly I came across a peach blossom forest, growing on both sides of the stream, hundreds of steps long, with no other trees in the middle. The flowers and plants were fresh and beautiful, and fallen flowers were scattered on the ground. The fisherman was very surprised by this (the scenery in front of him) and continued to sail forward, hoping to reach the end of the forest.
The end of the peach forest is the birthplace of the stream, so a mountain appears. There is a small cave entrance on the mountain, and there seems to be a little light in the cave. So he got off the boat and entered through the entrance of the cave. At first, the entrance to the cave was very narrow, allowing only one person to pass through. After walking a few dozen steps, it suddenly became open and bright. (What appeared in front of him was) a flat and broad land with neat rows of houses. There are also fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo forests. The fields are intertwined with paths, and the crows of cocks and dogs can be heard everywhere. People were coming and going in the fields, cultivating and working, and men and women were dressed exactly the same as people outside the Peach Blossom Spring. The old people and children are all comfortable, happy and enjoying themselves.
The people in the village were very surprised when they saw the fisherman and asked him where he came from. The fisherman answered in detail. Someone in the village invited him to his home (as a guest). They drank wine, killed chickens and cooked meals to entertain him. When the people in the village heard that such a person had arrived, they all came to inquire about the news. They themselves said that in order to escape the wars of the Qin Dynasty, their ancestors led their wives, children and neighbors to this isolated place and never went out again, thus cutting off contact with outsiders. They asked the fishermen what dynasty they were in now. They didn't even know that there was a Han Dynasty, let alone the Wei and Jin dynasties. The fisherman told them everything he knew in detail. After hearing this, they all sighed and felt sorry. The rest of the people invited the fisherman to their own homes and entertained him with food and wine. The fisherman stayed for a few days, said goodbye to the villagers, and left. The people in the village said to him: "Our place is not worth mentioning to outsiders!"
After the fisherman came out, he found his boat and went back along the old road, doing everything he could. mark. When he arrived at the county seat, he went to the prefect and reported his experience. The prefect immediately sent someone to follow him to look for the marks he had made before, but he finally lost his way and could no longer find the way to the Peach Blossom Spring.
Liu Ziji, a native of Nanyang, was a hermit with noble aspirations. After hearing this, he happily planned to go. But it didn't come true, and he died of illness soon after. After that, no one from Taohuayuan Road was asked.
3. Introduction
"The 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 the Peach Blossom Spring" and is selected from the "Collected Works of Tao Yuanming".
Tao Yuanming (about 365-427), whose courtesy name was Yuanliang, was born in Chaisang, Xunyang (now Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). He was the first pastoral poet in the history of Chinese literature. 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.