The famous "Peach Blossom Origin" is from the handwriting of Tao Yuanming, another great poet after Qu Yuan in China and an outstanding poetry and prose writer of the Jin and Song dynasties. For more than 1,600 years, this "Peach Blossom Origin" of less than 400 words has haunted many people with dreams. But in real life, you can't find him.
Is Taohuayuan pure fiction, the utopia of the East, or is it its real archetype? Where is its prototype?
Tao Yuanming 365-427 years, the character Yuanliang, also known as qian. Mr. Wuliu ,nicknamed Mr. Jingjie," was originally from Chaisang, Xunyang, Jiangzhou, 10 kilometers southwest of jiujiang city in present-day Jiangxi Province. He was born into a declining bureaucratic family, and his great-grandfather Tao Kan sealed the Changsha Palace and gave it to Sima Da. His grandfather, Tao Mao, was a Wuchang Taishou, and his mother, Meng Shi, was The granddaughter of Tao Kan. In this family environment, Tao Yuanming has been smart and studious since childhood.
In 400 AD, Tao Qian, because of the wind and rain weather of Shangjing (referring to going to Nanjing), took refuge in the Guilin of Sangluo Prefecture, which is another name for the Zhou Yu Jiuliu Bagua Array in Sangluo Prefecture. Tao Qian, whose shelter was in the village of Guilin in huikou Town, Susong County, Anhui Province, wrote two poems that indicated his ambition to return to hiding. Later, because Tao had the meaning of returning to the hidden mountains and forests here, they also called this place Guiyin. Here is also the prototype of its peach blossom source. Tao Yuanming watched on the boat, when Zhou Yu's training point was at the general, now the peach blossom is still the same, but there are only five willows left in the nine willows, seeing the hundred-year-old residual willows, Tao gradually became sad, remembering the world and his own life, just like these five hundred-year-old willow trees fluttering, so he was called Mr. Five Willows.
In 404 AD, Liu Yi and Heng Xuan fought in Cangluo Prefecture, the war was raging, Liu Yi won a great victory, but Sangluo Prefecture still stood on the river in the baptism of blood and fire, and the remnants of the sun were like blood, and the old trees on the shore sent new willows. Smoke swirled around with the wind, and the river silently flowed eastward.
In 405 AD, Tao Qian served as Peng Zeling, also known as Gu Pengze, which included part of present-day Pengze County in Jiangxi Province and Hukou County in present-day Jiangxi Province. According to historical records, in this year, a strong earthquake occurred in the Gongting Lake area, and the water of Gongting Lake poured south to Jiaoyang County, and gujiaoyang sank in most of today's Duchang and the vicinity of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, including Wulin, and many other cities such as Haidian sunk in Poyang Lake, which was formed at that time. According to the "Chronicle of Place Names of Duchang County", due to the repeated fall of the Duyang Lake Basin, Jiaoyang County, Haidian County, Jiaoyang City, Changyi City and Other military, economic and transportation towns such as Baisha, Wuling, Wuyang, and Jincai have sunk into the lake.
Gu pengze location
Tao Yuanming placed the displaced people on the Mulberry Island where he had taken refuge in the wind, built a forest village, and planted mulberry trees. These Tao Yuanming are briefly recorded in his poem "Pseudo-Ancient"—planting on the banks of the Yangtze River, looking forward to three years of harvesting. The branches began to grow, and the mountains and rivers changed suddenly. And because these immigrants were all Wulin people from Jiaoyang County, later generations called the original resettlement site Wulin Prefecture.
Tang, Du Youyue, Sangluo Prefecture in Jiangzhou Duchang County Hanzhi Pengze County also. Tao Qian's ancestral home is also Jiaoyang, and this resettlement of immigrants created a psychological and practical background for him to write the article "Peach Blossom Origin" later. It's just that the ancients liked fake characters, and the accent was not heavy, and Tao Yuanming was the same, and the Wulin people were written by him as Wuling people. So that there is a surprising misreading, the Wuling people are actually Wulin people.
It is conceivable that after the earthquake, the Wulin people and Tao Yuanming went down the river from their hometown of Jiaoyang County and traveled on the water to Sanluo Prefecture at the mouth of Poyang Lake, and their eyes should have been bright. Isn't this oasis of water, Samlo, a place of resettlement? After the displaced people were resettled in Samlo, the war eventually broke out in Samlo, which became a military dueling ground.
In 410 AD, it was Liu Yi again, but the opponent was replaced by Lu Xun, the leader of the Wudoumi Sect, and this time Liu Yi was defeated. There was blood everywhere in Sanluo Prefecture, that is, in this year, Liu Yibing encountered war in Sangluo Prefecture, and what was more serious was that in the following years, most of Jiaoyang County completely sank into Poyang Lake.
This is the foreshadowing buried at the end of Tao Yuanming's peach blossom source record, and then there is no one to ask. Later, based on this experience, Tao Yuanming borrowed ancient metaphors to write "The Tale of Peach Blossom Origin". In fact, the peach blossom source is in Sanlo Prefecture. In addition, the allusion that Tao Yuanming did not bend his waist for five buckets of rice also came from here.