Why did Tao Yuanming make up a fictional peach fairyland?

The story of "The Peach Blossom Spring" has similarities with other fairyland stories, describing a beautiful fairy world. However, it should be emphasized that the ideal model provided by Tao Yuanming has its peculiarities: the people who live there are actually ordinary people, a group of people who have taken refuge, not immortals, but they have retained the innocence of nature more than the world; Their peace, tranquility, and happiness are achieved through their own labor.

Many fairy tales in ancient times depict immortality and treasure, and there is neither immortality nor treasure in the peach blossom garden, only a scene of farming. 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, it is very valuable to be able to put forward this fantasy.

The last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were also a turbulent era, and the yearning for a quiet and peaceful environment was natural, and Tao Yuanming depicted a beautiful habitat for people living in an unstable era at that time.

Think about it day by day. There are also dreams.

He was very noble and did not want to be in the same league as the world. He couldn't find like-minded people in the real society at that time, and his political ambition and so on became the reason for his fictional Taoyuan Wonderland. This has to say the social background at the time.

Tao Yuanming lived in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty of the Southern Song Dynasty, an official eunuch family, accepted Confucian classics since childhood, loved leisure, read good deeds, held lonely thoughts, loved hills and mountains, had fierce ambitions, and different customs. At the age of 20, he was born in office, with several ups and downs, turbulent in office, and cultivated for more than ten years. Therefore, "Sonoda Day dreams, and it will be separated for a long time", and I am tired of seeing through the life of the eunuchs.

Tao Yuanming had a very clear understanding of the hypocrisy and darkness of social personnel at that time, but his seclusion was not a passive escape from reality, but had a profound positive significance of criticizing social reality. When he fell into the predicament of hunger and cold in his long secluded life, although he also hesitated and wavered, he did not succumb to reality in the end, and he would rather be poor and stick to the Qing Festival for the rest of his life.

Tao Yuanming fictionalized such an isolated paradise in order to not succumb to reality and stick to cleanliness.

It is in stark contrast to the dark society at that time, it is a kind of spiritual sustenance of the author's dissatisfaction with the reality at that time, a criticism of the dark society at that time, objectively reflects the aspirations of the people, and has certain positive significance; But it has traces of primitive co-cultivation, has a certain retro tendency, and can only be an illusion in class society, which is impossible to realize.

Very well written, I really wish I could find my own paradise too.

1. The social reality at that time was very dark, and people were displaced in the chaotic times, so they imagined a social situation of "yellow hair hanging down and enjoying themselves".

2. Express yourself as an ideal society.

Dreams that cannot be achieved in reality, people often pin their hopes on illusory, not only Tao Yuanming, but people are often like this.

The Peach Blossom Garden refers to a beautiful world that is not affected by the outside world and is far away from war, which shows the author's dissatisfaction with the social reality at that time, his yearning for peace and tranquility, no war, and no oppressive life, and also reflects the good wishes of the working people.

Because of the frequent wars in the real society, the society is dark and turbulent, and people live in misery. Tao Yuanming was deeply influenced by Taoist thought, loved nature, and hated officialdom.

He was originally an official, but the officialdom was dark, the world was uneven, and he couldn't get used to this, so he didn't bend his waist for five buckets of rice, so he resigned.

His fictional Peach Blossom Paradise is his inner yearning, to put it bluntly, he hopes to play through and go to a prosperous world where the world is peaceful.

It is a kind of ideal, and what is not in reality can only be obtained with one's own imagination and affection.

Hehe, in modern parlance, envy, jealousy, hatred, to put it nicely, is yearning, an attack on reality.