What does it mean that the author can't find the Peach Blossom Garden in Liu Ziji?

At the end of the article, I re-entered the Peach Blossom Garden but never re-entered. Liu Ziji re-entered but failed. Obviously, it shows that the Peach Blossom Garden is a fiction of the author, and it doesn't actually exist. It also shows that many people yearn for the Peach Blossom Garden, which is the reason for writing Liu Ziji. It mainly reveals the author's longing for a peaceful and beautiful life and his dissatisfaction with the dark reality.

Original text:

During the Jin-Tai-Yuan period, Wu Lingren took fishing as his occupation. Walk along the stream and forget the distance. Suddenly I met the peach blossom forest and grabbed the shore for hundreds of steps. There are no miscellaneous trees in it. Grass is delicious, and Britain is colorful. Fishermen are different. They move on and want to be poor.

If there is no water in the forest, make a mountain. The mountain has a small mouth and seems to have light. Leave the ship and enter through the mouth. Only by being narrow at first can we understand people. Take a few steps and you will be suddenly enlightened. The land is flat and spacious, so is the house. There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo. The traffic in the building is so busy that chickens and dogs hear each other. Some men and women dressed like strangers. The yellow hair hangs low and enjoys itself.

Seeing the fisherman, he was shocked and asked him what he had not done. Answer it. You have to go home and set up wine to kill chickens for dinner. When the village heard about this man, Xian came to inquire. Since Master Yunzu escaped from the Qin Dynasty, he led his wife to this desperate situation and did not return, so he was separated from outsiders. You ask what this world is, and I don't know if there are any Han Chinese, regardless of Wei and Jin Dynasties. This man speaks every word with a sigh. The others went home, eating and drinking. Stop for a few days and resign. There is a saying in China: "The humanity of outsiders is not satisfactory."

Help the road when you get off the boat, and you are determined everywhere. And the county, Yi Taishou, said so. The satrap means to send someone with him to find what he wants, get lost, get lost. Liu Ziji, a noble family, heard about it and gladly did it. If you fail, you find the disease, and then you lose interest.

Vernacular translation:

In the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man in Wuling County who made a living by fishing. He sailed along the stream and forgot the distance. Suddenly I met a peach blossom forest, which grew on both sides of the stream and stretched for hundreds of steps. There are no other trees in the middle, the flowers are fresh and beautiful, and the fallen flowers are scattered all over the floor. The fisherman was very surprised by this (the scenery in front of him) and continued to sail, trying to reach the end of the forest.

At the end of Taolin is the birthplace of the stream, so a mountain appears. There is a small hole in the mountain, which seems to be lit. So he got off the boat and went in through the hole. At first, the hole was very narrow, and only one person could pass through. After dozens of steps, it suddenly became open and bright. A flat and wide land, rows of neat houses.

There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo forests. The path in the field is intertwined, and the crowing of chickens and dogs can be heard everywhere. People come and go in the fields, farming and working, and men and women wear the same clothes as the world outside the Peach Blossom Garden. Old people and children are very comfortable and happy, and they have a good time.

People in the village were surprised to see the fisherman and asked him where he came from. The fisherman gave a detailed answer. Someone in the village invited him to his home and cooked for him. When people in the village heard about such a person, they all came to inquire about the news.

They themselves said that their ancestors brought their wives, children and neighbors to this isolated place in order to avoid the war in the Qin Dynasty, and never went out again, thus cutting off contact with outsiders. They asked the fishermen what dynasty it was. They didn't even know about the Han Dynasty, let alone the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

The fisherman told them everything he knew in detail, and they all sighed. The rest invited the fisherman to their home, and all took out wine and rice to entertain him. The fisherman stayed for a few days and said goodbye to the villagers. The people in the village said to him, "We are not worth telling outside people here."

After the fisherman came out, he found his boat and went back along the old road, marking everywhere. In the county, I went to the magistrate and reported this experience. The satrap immediately sent someone to follow him, looking for the marks he had made before, and finally lost his way and couldn't find the way to the Peach Blossom Garden.

Liu Ziji, a noble hermit from Nanyang, happily planned to go after hearing this. But it didn't happen, and soon he died of illness. Since then, I have never asked anyone on Taohuayuan Road.

This article is from Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden in Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Extended data writing background:

Peach Blossom Garden is one of the representative works of Tao Yuanming, a writer in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is "Preface to Peach Blossom Garden Poetry", which is selected from Tao Yuanming's collection. Based on the whereabouts of Wuling fisherman, this paper links reality with ideal realm, and through the description of peaceful, happy, free and equal life in Peach Blossom Garden, it shows the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with the real life at that time.

Tao Yuanming had the ambition of "helping the poor" when he was young. However, he lived in an era of changing owners in Jin and Song Dynasties. The Eastern Jin Dynasty was extremely corrupt, surrendered blindly to the outside world and settled in a corner of the rivers and lakes. The life of the ruling group is dissolute, civil strife continues, warlords have been fighting for years, and exorbitant taxes and levies have deepened the exploitation and oppression of the people.

In the turbulent era when the country was on the verge of collapse, Tao Yuanming's ambition could not be realized at all. At the same time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty inherited the old system, implemented the door-door system, and protected the aristocratic bureaucratic privileges of aristocratic gentry, resulting in intellectuals from small and medium-sized landlords having no chance to display their talents.

Tao Yuanming's successful use of the technique of virtual scene writing makes people feel that Taoyuan Wonderland is real, which shows his superb artistic talent in narrative scenery writing. But the artistic achievements and charm of Peach Blossom Garden don't stop there, and Tao Yuanming doesn't just want people to confirm its real existence.

Therefore, while writing virtual scenes, there are also virtual things in reality, leaving several seemingly empty topics, which make people try their best to guess and find no answers. The persuasion of Taoyuan people and the plot of "no more roads" and "no more rules" arranged at the end of the story are illusory and confusing, which is the most intriguing of these topics.

What it implies to the world is that it seems to be in the world, not in the world, not in the world, and can only be obtained unintentionally, not intentionally. It seems to have some subtle internal connection with "there is a real meaning in it, and I forgot what I wanted to say".

This mysterious area has always been covered with a mysterious veil, and it is difficult for the world to reveal that "it is difficult to ask the alchemist and it is difficult to predict the hubbub." Its opening and closing, the gains and losses of fishermen, are the eternal mysteries deliberately left by Tao Yuanming, "provoked the poet to talk today."

About the author:

Tao Yuanming (365-427) was a poet, lyricist and essayist in Jin and Song Dynasties. A latent and vivid figure, a private and quiet festival. Xunyang Chaisang (now southwest of Jiujiang, Jiangxi) was born. Born in a declining bureaucratic family. Great-grandfather Tao Kan was the founding father of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, his grandfather was a satrap, his father died young, and his mother was the daughter of Meng Jia, a famous person in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Tao Yuanming's life can be roughly divided into three periods. In the first period, before the age of 28, he lived in poverty since childhood because of his father's early death.

The second period, the official period, was from the age of 29 in the 18th year of Taiyuan (393) to the age of 465,438+0 in the first year of Yixi (405). The third period, from the second year of Yixi (406) to the fourth year of Yuanjia in Song Wendi (427), is the returning period.