The ancient text "Peach Blossom Origin" must have been recited by many people, and Tao Yuanming connected reality with imagination by using the whereabouts of the fishermen in Wuling.
Taohuayuan has become a pure land that the world is competing for, where the people are not disturbed by war, the customs are simple and kind, and in that era of war, it has become people's lifelong ideal.
In history, war and chaos have always accompanied people's lives, so the people's desire for Peach Blossom Garden has never weakened. But a closer look shows that fishermen may not enter a paradise, but a "country of the dead".
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This article is full of weirdness, let's take a step by step look.
The Wuling people have a fisherman who has been fishing for generations, but one day, a strange thing happened, the fisherman fished along the usual stream, and inadvertently walked into a peach blossom forest.
The fisherman kept paddling forward, trying to find out through the jungle. At the end of the forest is a mountain with a looming opening at the bottom.
The story has developed to this point, and no one has seen the beginning, but careful people will find that this peach forest appears very strangely.
According to the ancient text, this fisherman has lived here for generations, and according to the reason, even if he walks with his eyes closed, he will not get lost. Moreover, the peach blossoms bloom in April, around the Qingming Festival.
What is most likely to appear on the Qingming Festival, I guess I don't need to talk about it, this is also the first detail in the text. Taking advantage of the cover of this peach forest, the fisherman went all the way to the bottom of the mountain and saw the small opening that shone through the light.
Next, look at the descriptions of the ancients:
The beginning is very narrow, and it is only through people. Repeat dozens of steps, suddenly enlightened.
This small mouth is the village mouth, and from this small mouth, the mouth is very small at first, allowing only one person to pass. After walking a few tens of meters inside, I suddenly became enlightened.
In the Wei and Jin dynasties, the wind of thick burial had been prevalent for thousands of years, so in order to avoid tomb robbers sneaking into the tomb passage, the design of the mausoleum would mostly adopt this model of narrow front and wide back.
Therefore, in order to seek good fortune in the real village, there has never been a village to build the village entrance into a small form of external and large inside. Here is another detail, the fisherman entered, perhaps "another world".
Here's the third detail:
The land is flat, the houses are ,......, men and women are dressed like outsiders. Yellow hair hanging down and enjoying himself.
When I saw the fisherman, I was shocked... Since Yun's ancestors avoided the chaos of Qin, he led his wife Yiren to this desperate situation, did not come back, and was separated from outsiders. Ask what world it is, but I don't know whether there is a Han, no matter Wei Jin.
This passage conveys two messages to the reader: First, the village has a flat land, the houses are very neat, and the people inside are cultivating and dressing themselves, just like the people outside. Men, women and children, happy and harmonious.
Second: According to their own account, they came here to avoid the wars of the Qin Dynasty, and they never went out again, not even Han and Wei Jin.
So the question is, they have never been out, how can they be "dressed like outsiders?" According to their accounts, their clothes should be from the Qin Dynasty.
Historical common sense tells us that the costumes of the Qin Dynasty period are absolutely different from the Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties. But they were wearing the clothes of the Wei and Jin dynasties, but they did not know Wei Jin.
So where did their clothes come from? It is very likely that people outside burned them.
Moreover, a small village can reproduce on its own for five hundred years, and biologically, the gene pool is so close that they will die of inbreeding, even if they are not destroyed in war.
So, there is no doubt that this is a "country of the dead". From this conversation, it is clear that the inconsistencies are felt, and the fisherman may have been alert.
The fourth detail: the villagers saw that an outsider had come, so they invited him to the home as a guest, and when the others heard about it, they also brought food, a harmonious and loving scene.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, there was constant war, and the people outside were suffering from the war, but these people inside still had chicken and meat. Fishermen confirm their judgment by looking at the food they bring.
Although it is not mentioned in the text, we can think that these foods should be sacrifices, and the things brought by several families are single in category and similar in form.
Fishermen can tell at a glance when these things are used.
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The villagers warmly entertained the fisherman and told him not to tell outsiders when he was leaving. But this young man left the village and ran to Taishou to report this.
When I was in school, I felt that this young man was too unauthentic. Ming Ming said not to let him say, he still had to report too conservatively at the first time. If it is a normal village, there must be nothing to report, precisely because the young man saw the famous hall behind it, and he should have mistakenly entered the "country of the dead".
In this case, he would run to Taishou for the first time to report the matter.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="43" > postscript</h1>
Of course, these things are all guessed, and the right to be entertained can be. But that wasn't scary enough, after all, these people had been here for so long and hadn't hurt anyone else.
Even if the fishermen strayed into it, they were not harmed by them.
The most terrifying thing about this article is that we are required to memorize and silently write the whole text, how much effort was spent in the past, and it is still fresh in my memory, but this is also a good memory.