During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the power of the gate valve reached its peak, and it can even be said that it has overridden the imperial power. The four major families of Wang, Xie, Huan, and Yu are fully capable of keeping pace with the royal family.
At a time when the power of the gate lord clan was constantly expanding, they not only embezzled nearly 2 3 social resources, but also appeared a deformed social form of "inferior and non-worldly clan".
Tao Yuanming, known as the first hermit in ancient and modern times, was born in the darkest and most chaotic era in history. His grandfather was a Wuchang Taishou, and his father Tao Yi died of illness when he was 8 years old, after which the family began to gradually decline.
Tao Yuanming, who has been up and down in the Huan Sea for many years, has long been tired of the darkness of officialdom and the ugly faces of the ruling class and the gate lords. He wants to build a peach blossom paradise for the common people in the world without oppression and excessive taxes.
In the second year of Yongchu, 57-year-old Tao Yuanming took his officialdom experience and dissatisfaction with social reality as an opportunity to create the famous "Peach Blossom Spring".
Some people think that Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden is a fairyland on earth, but they don't know that the real purpose of his writing about Peach Blossom Garden is actually to allude to the dark reality of society at that time. Because of the 3 details in the article, it is extremely scary to think about.
The first paragraph of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" describes a Wuling man who makes a living from fishing, and when he was fishing in the stream by boat, he suddenly found a peach blossom forest with "hundreds of steps between the shore".
Strangely, there is not a single miscellaneous tree in this peach blossom forest. Just imagine, the fisherman fishes here all the year round and must be very familiar with the local environment, but he has never found this peach blossom forest.
What's even more strange is that the peach blossom forest suddenly appeared in front of the fisherman, and the fisherman kept moving forward in a trance, and when he reached the end of the peach blossom forest, he actually found the source of the stream.
All these unreasonable discoveries indicate that the peach blossom forest is by no means a human scene. Folklore has it that peach wood has the effect of warding off evil spirits, and the peach blossom forest that the fisherman saw without miscellaneous trees was separated between a stream and a mountain.
When the fisherman burrows into the small opening in the mountain, it can only accommodate one person at first, but after walking dozens of steps, it suddenly opens up, and this pattern is reminiscent of the structure of a burial chamber.
The peach blossom forest is like a barrier between yin and yang, people outside the mountain cannot enter at will, and people inside the mountain naturally cannot cross it. In other words, the fisherman may have encountered an accident, and then after the out-of-body experience, he strayed into the afterlife.
After the fisherman strayed into the Peach Blossom Spring, he was simply stunned by the scene in front of him. The houses here are neatly arranged, the roads in the fields are full of traffic, and there are fields, ponds, and mulberry forests as far as the eye can see.
In the real life of the countryside, the size of the houses of each family will vary depending on the living conditions. The houses of the rich and the poor cannot be the same at all.
In the Peach Blossom Garden, not only the houses are the same size and specifications, but even the small roads are interconnected. This can't help but give people the illusion that the so-called Peach Blossom Paradise is not the real world.
To put it bluntly, neat houses are tombs, and the so-called Qianmo is the path that descendants tread between the graves when they worship them.
When the villagers in the Peach Blossom Garden saw the fisherman, they not only invited him to their home as a guest, but also "set up wine to kill chickens for food", and it was unbelievable that his life was so rich.
Just imagine, in that dark era, the common people living in dire straits, even eating may be a problem, how can they take out big fish and meat to entertain fishermen!
Well, there is only one answer, the fisherman has passed away due to an accident. The villagers who invited him were actually the spirits of the underworld, and the wine and chickens they entertained to the fishermen were sacrifices.
The men and women in the Peach Blossom Garden are dressed very differently from the people outside, they have come here since the Qin Dynasty to escape the war, and they have never gone out again, so they are separated from outsiders.
The gap between people and outsiders in the Peach Blossom Land is actually the insurmountable peach blossom forest. And the clothes they are wearing are also very likely to be sacrifices burned by later generations, so they will look out of place, and even a little weird.
At the end of the article, after the fisherman stayed in the Peach Blossom Garden for a few days, the villagers told him, "It is not enough for outsiders to be an outsider." But the fisherman broke his promise, and as he walked back along the old path, he marked almost everywhere.
Unfortunately, in the end, it was not the way back. It is clear that the fisherman is a man who does not die, and he passed out after encountering danger while fishing, and only then did he have the good fortune to see the scene of another world.
When the fisherman woke up again, he returned to the real world, and he was naturally separated from the yin and yang of the Peach Blossom Spring. And the reason why Nanyang Liu Ziji "sought the end of his illness" must have been to live permanently in Peach Blossom Garden after his death.