What kind of place is Peach Blossom Spring in "Peach Blossom Spring"?
Tao Yuanming's "The Peach Blossom Spring" is a wonderful article. The article records a story and outlines a social realm based on the philosophical concepts of Laozi and Zhuangzhou, a pure, beautiful and uncontested farming ideal. realm of life.
"In the Taiyuan Dynasty of Jin Dynasty, the people of Wuling made a living by fishing. They walked along the stream and forgot the distance of the road. Suddenly they came across a peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps along the bank. There were no miscellaneous trees in the middle, the grass was delicious and the fallen flowers were there. Colorful. The fishermen are very different. If they want to go through the forest, they will find a mountain with a small mouth. If there is light, they will leave the boat and enter through the mouth. After walking for a few dozen steps, it suddenly became clear that the land was flat and there were houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, and people walking around. The men and women were all dressed like outsiders. And enjoy myself..."
Who is the Wuling fisherman, and where is the Peach Blossom Spring?
So where did the real model of "Peach Blossom Spring" come from? At the end of the last century, a new "Wuling fisherman" suddenly looked back and discovered the peach blossom garden that Tao Qian had written down.
One day in March 1991, a young Chinese teacher from Zhushan Guandu Middle School cast a net to fish along the Duhe River. He walked all the way to the entrance of Wuling Gorge and found a narrow stone gorge covered with trees and weeds. It was covered, but when I leaned forward and looked, there was light coming out. So, carrying the fish basket on his back, he got in and walked along the valley. After passing the narrow place, it suddenly became clear, and he saw peach blossoms everywhere inside, and the houses looked like: the scene from "Peach Blossom Spring" reappeared! He felt relaxed and happy along the way, forgetting the distance of the road, thinking that he had entered Taoyuan Township in Zhuxi County. For more than ten years, he searched local chronicles and classics in prefectures and counties, and visited "Peach Blossom Spring" in various places. Scholars were asked to demonstrate, and finally in broad daylight, this place was confirmed to be the real Peach Blossom Spring by scholars at home and abroad. This person’s name is Hua Fugui.
The entrance to the Peach Blossom Spring discovered by Hua Fugui is in Taohuayuan Village, Guandu Town, Zhushan. After entering, it is the Peach Blossom Spring (Taoyuan) Township in Zhuxi today, (today: Zhuxi Taoyuan Township (Taoyuan Township, County) is a Zhuxi landscape pastoral where clear streams flow into the river. Zhuxi is a big peach blossom garden! Tao Yuanming said, "When you walk by the stream, you forget how far the road is." This is right. Walk by the river, walk by the river, then walk by the stream, and enter Zhuxi. (Zhuxi County) "Walking to the bottom of the mountain, sitting and watching the clouds rise", this is the way to go into the mountain to avoid the chaos of the Qin Dynasty!
Zhuxi and Zhushan were originally one county, and it was not until 1476 that a "brother shared a meal" came. According to the "Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Place Names", the name of Wuling County is recorded as follows: "Place in the former Han Dynasty, province in the Later Han Dynasty, and restored by the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms. The old city is in the east of Zhuxi County, Hubei Province." Zhuxi originated from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - 25 AD) During the 708 years of the Qi Dynasty (AD 479-502) in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, except for the 195th year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was always called Wuling County for the remaining 500 years. Wuling County was under the jurisdiction of Hanzhong County during the Western Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms, Jin, Song and Qi were all under the jurisdiction of Shangyong County. This was the era when Tao Yuanming wrote "Peach Blossom Spring".
The landscape of Zhuxi is located in the middle section of Daba Mountain. Crossing the Qinling Mountains in the north, you will reach the ancient capital Chang'an and the 800-mile Guanzhong Plain. To the southwest are Chongqing's Wuxi and Wushan Mountains, the Big Three Gorges and the Little Three Gorges, and to the southeast are the Control Jingxiang. In this area in the center of China's territory, Qinba stretches across the Han River to the southeast. Whenever the Chinese nation is in war, the people in the Guanzhong Plain in the north, Jingxiang in the east, the Central Plains area, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places will go upstream along the river. Sneak into this mountain forest to escape the war. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos. War raged from the Guanzhong Plain in the north to the Central Plains in the east. The people had no choice but to hide in the mountains nearby. According to the records of Zhuxi County, the population composition of Zhuxi is "five people from Shaanxi, four from Jiangxi, two from Shandong and Henan, and two from aboriginal people. Nowadays, many people from Sichuan, Jiangnan, Shanxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Wuchang, Huangzhou, Anlu, Jingxiang are also naturalized."
Taoyuan Township in Zhuxi County is where the ruins in "Peach Blossom Spring" are located