Wei and Jin Dynasties: Tao Yuanming
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 English is colorful, which makes fishermen very different. If you go any further, you will 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." (Every other job: isolation)
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.
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During the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man in Wuling who made a living by fishing. One day, he rowed along the stream and forgot the distance. Suddenly, I found a peach forest. There are no other trees in the middle within a few hundred steps on both sides of the stream. Flowers and plants are fresh and beautiful, and there are many fallen flowers on the ground. The fisherman was very surprised by this. I walked on, trying to reach the end of the forest.
The end of Taolin is the source of the stream. The fisherman found a hill with a small hole, which seemed to be lit. The fisherman gave up the boat and got in through the hole. At first, the cave was very narrow, allowing only one person to pass through; After dozens of steps, it suddenly became open and bright. There are flat and wide land, rows of neat houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, bamboo forests and other plants. The path in the field is intertwined, and the cock crows and dogs bark one after another. People who come and go in the fields to farm and work, men and women wear the same clothes as people outside. The old man and the children are very happy and have a good time.
When the villagers saw the fisherman, they were very surprised and asked him where he came from. The fisherman answered everything he knew in detail. The villagers invited the fisherman to their home, treated him to drink and killed the chicken to cook. 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 from here again, so they cut off contact with people outside the Peach Blossom Garden. People here asked what dynasty it was, but they didn't know there was a Han dynasty, let alone Wei and Jin dynasties. The fisherman told them everything he knew in detail. After listening, everyone sighed. The rest invited the fisherman to their own home and treated him with food and wine. After staying for a few days, the fisherman said goodbye to the villagers. People in the village told him: "(The situation here) is not worth telling people outside Taohuayuan."
After (the fisherman) came out, he found his boat and went back the same way, marking everywhere. He went to the county, visited the satrap and told the story. The satrap immediately sent someone to follow him, looking for the marks he had made before, and finally got lost and couldn't find the way to the Peach Blossom Garden.
There is a man named Liu Ziji in Nanyang, who is a noble scholar. Hearing the news, he happily planned to go to Taohuayuan. But it didn't happen, and he soon died of illness. Since then, no one has been to the Peach Blossom Garden.
Precautions:
Taiyuan: the title of Emperor Xiaowu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (376-396)
Wuling: County name, now Changde City, Hunan Province.
Occupation: take ... as a profession and make a living from it ... in favor of: as.
Edge: along, along.
Ok: go ahead, go ahead.
Distance: a compound word with partial meaning, which only refers to distance.
Meet suddenly: meet suddenly. Meet: meet, meet
Sandwiched between the two banks: on both sides of the stream.
Miscellaneous: something else, something else.
The fragrant grass is delicious: the fragrant grass is tender and beautiful, and the square is flowers; Delicious: bright and beautiful.
Falling Flowers English: Falling Flowers. For example, the first flower.
Colorful: various appearances.
What: very, very.
Different: that is, "to be different", I was surprised by what I saw. Different pronouns refer to what you see.
A: Go on.
Before: nouns are used flexibly as adverbials and move forward. (Flexible use of parts of speech)
Desire: want.
Poverty: when adjectives are used as verbs, they are exhausted and come to an end. ...
Lin: refers to the peach blossom forest.
The forest is at its source: the forest is at its source, which means that the peach forest ends where the stream originated. Disappear (flexible use of parts of speech)
Then: So, just.
D: yes.
As if: vague and unreal.
If: Like …
Give up: give up, discard, which means to leave in the text.
Chu: At first, at first.
Only one person can pass: only one person can pass. Cai: Adverb, only.
Answer: Come again, come again.
Ok: let's go.
Suddenly enlightened: describes the appearance of suddenly becoming open and bright from the narrow darkness. However, the appearance of ... suddenly: describe the appearance of openness; Cheerfulness: Cheerfulness.
Ping: Ping.
Open: open; Vast
House: House.
Yan (y ǐ n) ran: (ancient and modern different meanings) ancient meaning: neat appearance. Today's meaning: the description is very similar; Describe neatness; Describe solemnity
One: This.
Genus: class.
Traffic in architecture: fields and paths crisscross. Buildings and field paths are called buildings in the north-south direction and buildings in the east-west direction. Traffic, criss-crossing.
Chickens and dogs can hear each other's crows. Wen Xiang: You can hear each other's voices.
Planting: refers to people who have cultivated and worked for generations.
Dress: dress up.
Sita: All, all.
Outsider: refers to the world outside the Peach Blossom Garden. There is a better translation: people from another world, because Taohuayuan people have been isolated from the world from Qin to Jin.
Tiao: It refers to the elderly and children. Yellow hair, in ancient times, thought that the change of old people's hair from white to yellow was a symbol of longevity, referring to the old people. In ancient times, children did not tie their hair, and their hair drooped, which means children here. (metonymic rhetoric) rhymes with short hair that children hang down.
And: both.
Yiran: A cheerful look.
I was shocked: so I was surprised. Nye: So. Big: Very, very.
Never: from ....
Furniture: all of it.
One: Pronouns refer to questions asked by Taoyuan people.
To (yāo): Invite, invite. (common word)
Salty: adverb, du, du.
Asking: Asking for information.
Yun: Say.
Ancestor: Ancestor.
Rate: lead.
Wife: (different meanings in ancient and modern times) Ancient meaning: refers to wife and children. "Wife" and "son" are two words, not "wife" in modern Chinese: a man's spouse.
Yi people: people from the same county
Despair: (ancient and modern) Ancient meaning: a place isolated from the world. Today's meaning: the dilemma with no obvious way out; In a dilemma Absolutely: the best place.
Answer: Come again, come again.
Yan: both, equivalent to harmony, starting from here.
Sui: So.
Interval: cut off and isolate.
Today: Now.
Nai (I didn't know there was a Chinese Nai): I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it.
Whatever: forget it, forget it. "Wu" and "Lun" are two words, which are different from "No matter" in modern Chinese.
Here it is.
Words: detailed.
Smell: It refers to the world known by fishermen. Wen: Yes, I heard.
Sigh: sigh, regret.
Yu: The rest, the rest.
Extend to: invite to. Postpone, invite.
To: to.
Stop: stop.
Remarks: Goodbye.
Go: Leave.
Language: telling.
Insufficient: not worth it. (Different meanings in ancient and modern times)
W: Preposition, item, right.
It's already started.
Help the road: just follow the old road (back). Help: Aaron, Aaron. Direction: former old.
Everywhere: There are signs everywhere. Pool: verb, mark. (Flexible use of parts of speech)
And: arrive.
Under the county: the location of the satrap refers to Wuling.
Yi (y) Taishou: refers to visiting Taishou. Yi, here we are. Especially for the elders.
So: like this, it refers to what you have seen in the Peach Blossom Garden.
Namely: immediately.
Send: Send.
Find what you want: find the mark you made before. Looking for, looking for. Before. Mark (noun) (Verb+is translated into a noun)
Sui: Finally.
Answer: Again.
Get, get, means to find in the text.
Noble: a noble character.
Scholar: Hermit.
There is also: table judgment.
Cheerful: In a cheerful manner.
Rule: plan, plan. (Flexible use of parts of speech)
No: no.
Results: Realization.
Unsuccessful: Not implemented.
Search: Soon.
Ending: death.
Asking for directions here means visiting and asking for help. Tianjin: Ibn Ferry.