Tao Yuanming s Peach Blossom Spring: Background of the Times

At the beginning of the article, the peach blossom forest with beautiful and quiet, "fragrant grass is delicious, and falling flowers are colorful" is used as a foreshadowing to introduce a simple and natural world. There, everything is so simple, so beautiful. There are no taxes, no wars, no fame, no intrigue.

Not even a single loud noise could be heard. The relationship between people is also so peaceful and sincere. The reason for all this, the author did not say it explicitly, but the news has been vaguely revealed from the sentence "I don't know that there is a Han, regardless of the Wei and Jin dynasties":

It turns out that in the final analysis, it is because there is no ruling group that sits on the head of the people and attacks each other for selfish interests. This fantasy paradise world is undoubtedly fascinating for people living in a real world of hypocrisy and darkness, frequent wars, and constant bloodshed. The author's concise brushstrokes appropriately show the atmosphere of the peach blossom paradise, making the article more infectious.

Of course, this ideal realm did not exist in the reality at that time, but was only a kind of spiritual sustenance of the author's dissatisfaction with the dark reality.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tao Yuanming did not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and resigned and returned to the field. At that time, the situation outside was turbulent, and he longed for peace and tranquility, so he wrote the story of the Peach Blossom Spring.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the political corruption and officialdom were dark.

Objectively speaking, the "paradise" depicted by Tao Yuanming in "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is not real, but the Peach Blossom Land has a historical prototype. Mr. Chen Yinke, a well-known historian, once talked about the prototype of the Peach Blossom Land in his ** "Circumstantial Evidence of the Peach Blossom Spring".

"The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is a literary work written by Tao Yuanming, and it is also an article that every student will encounter in the process of learning classical Chinese. However, there have been countless rumors about the truth and falsehood of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", some people think that "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is Tao Yuanming's ideal utopian life, which does not exist, but some people think that this is Tao Yuanming's real experience. But in fact, these two concepts are not correct, because if the Peach Blossom Garden is fake, but there is indeed a prototype of the "Peach Blossom Spring" in history, if the Peach Blossom Garden is real, then how can no one have seen it?

It can be inferred from this that "Peach Blossom Spring" was adapted by Tao Yuanming based on historical prototypes.

Mr. Chen Yinke said in his ** "Peach Blossom Spring" circumstantial evidence: "The prototype of "Peach Blossom Spring" is actually the "dock fort" where the people in the north lived in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty. During the Western Jin Dynasty, due to the rise of warlordism in various places, resulting in social turmoil, people were forced to live in the haze of war, because of the lack of eyes of swords and guns, so many people also died innocently in the chaos, in order to avoid the war, the people of the north built the "dock fort", "dock fort" is actually similar to the castle in Europe, but the geographical location will be very secret, although the people can live in the dock fort can be self-sufficient, but it is completely isolated from the outside world.

Because the similarity between "Wubao" and "Peach Blossom Spring" is too high, Mr. Chen Yinke thinks that Peach Blossom Land is actually a new world reconstructed based on Wubao. Therefore, the Peach Blossom Paradise itself is absolutely non-existent, at least so far there is no objective evidence to prove the existence of the Peach Blossom Spring.

Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring should be fictional, this is a kind of ideal for him, a kind of life that he yearns for. However, the inspiration is also ** in life, at that time, he should have passed by or seen such a beautiful place somewhere, so he imagined such a place.

Of course it's not real, there is no such kind of peach blossom paradise in the world, this is just Tao Yuanming's ideal world, and it is a manifestation of his escape from real life and looking forward to a better life.

Tao Yuanming is true, and "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is also true, but whether there is such a place as the Peach Blossom Spring, you have to ask Mr. Tao. Now many people are debating whether there is an existing problem, but I don't think it exists, the whole text is describing one thing, not that Mr. Tao said "I experienced the whole thing", but in a very objective outsider tone.

It shouldn't be real, it was conceived by Tao Yuanming himself, because the social turmoil at that time brought a lot of bad things to Tao Yuanming and people. We want a peaceful home and a neighborhood where we can live in harmony.

The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring is false, he is what Tao Yuanming imagined in his heart, and it is a yearning for those who have no oppression, no war, and a better world.

In fact, it exists, in Hunan Province, but it should be that the Peach Blossom Source This text was imagined by Tao Yuanming, expressing his emotions, and rewriting it into the Peach Blossom Source in his heart according to Wubao So the descendants who wrote in the text did not find the Peach Blossom Source because it was fictionalized by Tao Yuanming.

The world says that "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is Tao Yuanming's dream, which was created after waking up from the dream, in fact, is "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" really made by Tao Yuanming after waking up from the dream?

The Peach Blossom Fountain is indeed handed down from ancient times, but there has been no clear statement on whether there is a place in the Peach Blossom Spring.

It's not real, it's just a place in Tao Yuanming's dream at that time, and there was no such place at that time.

Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring's writing backgroundWhen he was young, Tao Yuanming had the ambition of "helping the common people", but the era in which he lived was when the Jin and Song dynasties changed hands, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was extremely corrupt, blindly surrendered to the outside world, and settled in a corner of the left corner of the river. Although Tao Yuanming is far away in the rivers and lakes, he still cares about national affairs. Starting from the inherent Confucian concept, he developed dissatisfaction with Liu Yu's regime and deepened his hatred of the real society.

But he couldn't change or intervene in this situation, so he had to use his creation to express his feelings, creating a beautiful realm opposed to the dirty and dark society, in order to place his political ideals and beautiful tastes. "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" was created in this context.

Theme of the work. When Tao Yuanming first returned to seclusion, he only thought of the progress and retreat of individuals, and when he wrote "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", he was not limited to individuals, but thought of the way out of the whole society and the happiness of the people. Tao Yuanming's step is related to years of farming and poor life experience.

Although the Peach Blossom Paradise is just a fantasy, just the author's ideal society, it is rare to be able to put forward this fantasy.

About the Author. Tao Yuanming (365-427) was a poet, poet, and essayist in the Jin and Song dynasties. A dive, the character is bright, and the private Jingjie is private.

Xunyang Chaisang (now southwest of Jiujiang, Jiangxi) people. More than 20 years after returning to the field, it was the most abundant period of his creation. Tao Yuanming is known as the "Sect of Hidden Poets" and created the integration of pastoral poetry.

The artistic achievements of Tao poetry have been admired since the Tang Dynasty, and have even been regarded as "the fundamental criterion for poetry". There are a total of 125 poems and 12 essays in the hand-me-down works, which were compiled by later generations as "Tao Yuanming Collection".

The background of the writing is as follows:

Tao Yuanming had the ambition of "helping the common people", but when he lived in the Jin and Song dynasties, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was extremely corrupt, deepening the exploitation and oppression of the people, and the taxation and servitude were heavy, and in the turbulent years when the country was on the verge of collapse, Tao Yuanming's ambition could not be realized at all, he hastily and resolutely resigned from the Pengze County Order for only 81 days in office, and finally broke with the ruler, lived in seclusion in the countryside for a long time, and plowed into the wilderness.

Although Tao Yuanming lived in seclusion in the countryside, he still cared about national affairs, he started from the inherent Confucian concept, produced dissatisfaction with Liu Yu's regime, and deepened his hatred of the real society, but he could not change the status quo, so he used his creation to express his feelings, and created a beautiful realm opposite to the dirty and dark society, in order to entrust his political ideals and beautiful tastes, so he wrote "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

In the article, it refers to a village at the end of the peach blossom forest, but at present, in order to verify that this village has really existed, the academic community generally believes that the "Peach Blossom Spring" is the ideal place in the bright heart of the author Tao Yuanming, and it does not really exist.

"The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" is one of the representative works of the Eastern Jin Dynasty writer Tao Yuanming, and is the preface to the "Peach Blossom Spring Poem", which is selected from "Tao Yuanming's Infiltration Wide Collection". Through the description of the peaceful, happy, free and equal life of the Peach Blossom Spring, this article shows the author's pursuit of the ideal of a better life and his dissatisfaction with the real life at that time.