"Taoyuan Yuanji" is a junior high school text that everyone is familiar with, and the author is Tao Yuanming, a famous pastoral poet of the Jin Dynasty.
The story tells that there was a fisherman in Wuling (about the territory of present-day Changde, Hunan), who one day walked along the direction of the source of the stream, and then found a peach blossom forest, and the scenery was not very beautiful. Go inside, through a cave, and there is a large open field inside. People are farming, fertile fields, mulberry bamboo forests. People are at ease and happy, enjoying themselves, and it is simply the place of a fairy paradise.
And the people in the village were also very strange to see him. However, the people in the village were very enthusiastic and set up wine and chickens to entertain him. Then he told him that during the Qin Dynasty, the ancestors led their families to this place to avoid war and chaos, and no longer went out, so they were cut off from other places.
The fishermen talked to them about dynasties, and they didn't even know that there was a Han Dynasty, let alone the Wei (Three Kingdoms) Jin.
The fisherman stayed in the village for a few days, and then came out without saying goodbye, and before he came out, the villagers told him not to tell the people outside about the things here.
However, after the fisherman came out, he did not do this, he went back along the original road, and also marked all the way (the fisherman's character, ah, is really not worthy of praise, thanks to the villagers still good wine and good meat to entertain him). When he arrived at the county town, he also reported the matter directly to Taishou, who immediately sent someone to follow him to find it.
But fortunately, they looked all the way to the past, but they lost their way and did not find the way to Taohuayuan.
Later, there was a hermit in Nanyang, Liu Ziji, who heard about this matter, and he wanted to go to such a place to retreat, so he also went to look for it, but unfortunately he did not find it, but he died of illness soon after. So later, no one knew the way to Taohuayuan.
Although the story is simple, there is a lot of time left for future generations. Obviously it is a very simple section of the road, but also made a mark? These people have only been isolated from the world for hundreds of years, how can they not be found?
So, there are people in the back, and there are more conjectures.
Guess one, Dark said
This conjecture comes from a TV series "Mao Deception", in which a very interesting but very dark statement is given. That is.
Taishou followed the fisherman all the way and directly found Taohuayuan Village. Peach Garden Village is very rich, and Taishou is greedy. The orderers carried out the slaughter of the village. Then loot the treasures of the village.
After coming out, everyone kept the secret, sealed the mouth of the cave, and then said to outsiders that they had not found it.
Liu Ziji later went to look for it, in fact, he also found it, but unfortunately what he saw was a scorched earth of purgatory. Frightened by this, he came out and fell seriously ill and died soon after.
This conjecture is indeed relatively dark, creepy to hear, and the ugliness of human nature is also more profoundly exposed.
Guess two, hit the ghost said
This speculation is relatively simple, we know that in ancient Chinese mythology, there are more similar stories of this kind of collision with ghosts.
This is to say that the fisherman actually walked to a mass graveyard, and then encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and it was the ghost who entertained him for several days. And these so-called people in Taohuayuan Village are actually just the period of war and chaos in the Qin Kingdom, because of the military turmoil, the villagers who were killed, the souls of the wronged gathered here. And just happened to be touched by the fisherman. These ghosts, too, were more benign and entertained the fishermen. Also sent him back. Because it is a ghost, of course, I can't find it later.
There are many similar stories in ancient China, such as the story of Huang Liang's dream in Shen Jieji's "Pillow Record" in the Tang Dynasty, that is, Shusheng had a spring dream. The protagonist of the dream is an ant. There are also many similar stories of bumping ghosts in "Liaozhai" and "Three Words and Two Beats". This speculation is also more consistent with traditional Chinese culture.
Guess three, parallel universe says
This speculation is definitely the idea of modern talents.
That said. The space we live in, in fact, has a lot of parallel universes. Under normal circumstances, people in parallel universes cannot see each other. Just like we live in a building, people on all floors are generally invisible, but parallel universes, sometimes, collide, and when they collide, there will be spatial overlap, just like people on different floors meet in an electric building.
The peach blossom source is actually the collision of parallel universe space, so the fisherman encounters the people in the peach blossom source, and after the fisherman leaves, the space of the parallel universe has drifted elsewhere, so the natural follow-up can not be found.
Of course, the possibility of such speculation is relatively small.
Guess four, the vigilance of the Taohuayuan people made them avoid a disaster
That is to say, at that time, although the fishermen were sent, the people in the peach blossom garden did not believe that the fishermen did not tell the things here after they went out, they were worried that outsiders would come to disturb them, they were worried that the imperial court would come to collect taxes, and they were even more worried that a new war would bring disaster to them.
Therefore, when the fisherman went out, the people in the peach blossom garden also quietly followed, they followed the fisherman all the way, moved the mark he made, and then retreated to the cave and sealed it. In this way, although the fisherman made the mark, when he came back with the Taishou, it was no longer the original mark and the original road, and they would certainly not be able to find it. And Liu Ziji according to the fisherman's description, looking for it again, naturally it is impossible to find.
This kind of idea is actually an idea that I had when I first read this text in junior high school, and I found it easy to realize.
Guess five, the goodness of the fisherman
The fisherman was suspicious of being suspicious after spending several days in the peach blossom garden, and he could not explain that he was there these days.
Therefore, he made some fake marks that could not guide people to the peach blossom garden. Then find taishou to say, and bring taishou to find. Because the path he was leading was wrong, of course, he couldn't find it.
I think this possibility is relatively small, in ancient times, because of getting lost, it was normal not to go home for several days. There is no need to make some marks, and then come to look for them with taishou. In case TaiShou suspects that he is cheating on Taishou to play. That would be life-threatening.
Guess Six, the ultimate conjecture, is the one that is closest to the truth.
That is, this is just Tao Yuanming's good wishes, the author's rich imagination. This article is no different from what we are now creating a science fiction, creating a myth, or creating something that we have not experienced, and there is no need to over-interpret it. We only need to read Tao Yuanming's state of mind.
At that time, it was the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when the powerful minister Liu Yu came to power, and then Liu Yu deposed the emperor and established himself as the Song, that is, the Southern Song Dynasty of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Tao Yuanming, although he had stayed away from the officialdom at this time and lived a reclusive life, in the face of such changes in the country, he proceeded from the inherent Confucian concept and became dissatisfied with Liu Yu's regime and deepened his hatred of the real society. But he couldn't change. He longed for an idyllic and beautiful society that ruled by doing nothing, but he could not achieve it, so he had to use his creation to express his feelings and create a beautiful realm opposed to the dirty and dark society, in order to pin his political ideals and beautiful tastes.