From the Song of the Peach Blossom Temple by Tang Yin, a painter, writer and poet in the Ming Dynasty, the original text is as follows:
Taohuawu Taohua Temple, Taohuaguan Taohuaxian.
Peach Fairy cultivates peach trees, picks them and drinks them.
When you wake up, you just sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep under the flowers.
Half drunk and half awake day after day, flowers bloom year after year.
I hope I'm old and dead, and I don't want to bow down and be a willing ox.
If you are rich, you will become a hermit.
If the revealer is compared to a hermit, one is underground and the other is in heaven.
If we compare Hua San to horses and chariots, I will have no leisure.
The world laughs at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it.
There are no graves of Hao Jie in Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and no hoes to plow the fields.
Translation:
There is a peach temple in Taohuawu, and there is a peach fairy below.
Peach Fairy planted peach trees and broke off peach branches to pay for drinks.
When you wake up, you just sit in front of the peach blossom. Sleep under the peach blossom when you are drunk.
Next to the peach blossom day after day, I was drunk and awake year after year.
I don't want to bow down in front of luxurious chariots and horses. I just want to spend my whole life enjoying flowers and drinking.
Running around by horse is the pleasure of the rich, while those who have no money look for wine, snuff.
If you compare wealth with poverty, it's a world of difference.
If the life of the poor is compared to the life of horses and chariots, what they get is the pain of running around, and what I get is leisurely happiness.
Everyone laughs at me for being crazy, and I laugh at them for being superficial.
I still remember that there were no flowers and no wine in front of the tomb of the heroes of the Five Tombs, and now they have all been hoed into fields.
Extended data:
This poem seems to express his attitude towards life, which is willing to retire and indifferent to fame and fortune. The life of making poems and selling paintings is also enjoyable, and it is very comfortable to do nothing. Although carefree, but detached and free and easy, it can be regarded as a peace of mind.
But in fact, The Song of the Peach Blossom Temple can be said to be the most typical passive seclusion poem in history. Tang Bohu is a down-and-out scholar involved in "exam fraud". Although he lived a quiet and peaceful life in the Peach Blossom Garden, he was caught in the political conspiracy of Wang Ning and got into trouble. Later, he narrowly escaped a fatal disaster and became depressed.
Besides, he is ill all the year round, so he can't often paint and keep a house. His life is quite difficult, and he even borrows money from his friends all his life. It's an unfortunate life, and people sigh when they sympathize.
You know, Tang Bohu once had the ambition of "going to Tian Shelang at dusk to make a pilgrimage to the emperor". After being deposed, he also traveled to famous mountains and rivers to solve his frustration. Even if he built a room in Taohuawu and painted with peace of mind, his fame and fortune were not completely put down. Although it seems that enjoying himself can temporarily paralyze himself, he is full of knowledge and books, but he is useless. It is self-evident how painful his heart is.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Peach Blossom Temple Song