This middle man's language cloud: not enough for outsiders also! - "The Tale of Peach Blossom Origin"
People's yearning for a better life has always existed from ancient times to the present, China's ancient literati also have expectations for their ideal world, in Tao Yuanming's work when "Peach Blossom Origin", people interpret it as a portrayal of Tao Yuanming's yearning for a beautiful ideal life, and Tao Yuanming's inner world flows out between the writings.
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However, appreciating "Peach Blossom Origin" from different angles gives people a picture of contemplation and extreme fear, not like the fairyland on earth depicted in textbooks, but may be the opposite horror picture, of which the three details in "Peach Blossom Origin" reveal the terrible truth!
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Among the literati in ancient China, the pursuit of beautiful things has always been yearning for in the past, and we are most familiar with the "Peach Blossom Origin" in the textbook, and the interpretation of the article is to let people understand the life that Tao Yuanming yearns for.
In that ideal world, there is no war, no dispute of interests, no struggle in the political arena, everything seems so beautiful and natural, constituting a situation in which man and nature live in harmony.
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It can be seen how tao Yuanming's pursuit of the ideal world is, although the world written in "Peach Blossom Origin" is very beautiful, but everything has a causal relationship, in the modern alternative interpretation, there are other different views on "Peach Blossom Origin", there is such a world, for a cultural work, naturally there is a portrayal of life, and will not appear out of thin air, combined with the era of time for the interpretation of the things in the article.
After a closer comparison, it gradually began to make people think about it very frighteningly, it turned out that in the reinterpretation of "Peach Blossom Origin", people found that Tao Yuanming's narrative of Taohuayuan was probably not a yearning for a beautiful ideal life at all, but a narrative of an adventure.
This adventure is likely to be that Tao Yuanming wants to portray a new world, but this world cannot be formed when he is a living person, so the final point is that the world after death can have such a world without desire and no demand.
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There are three details in "The Book of Peach Blossom Origins" that will make future generations have a different interpretation of "Peach Blossom Origin", so what are these three details?
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The first is the environmental description of the opening chapter, writing that the appearance of peach blossoms should have a beautiful environment to be able to show the beauty of the article and give people a kind of ideal beauty.
Under the colorful embellishment of the fall, it seems to make people immersed in the scene, so it is to embellish the environment of the article and bring the peach blossoms into the article, why does it become the beginning of the horror? It turns out that the meaning of peach blossoms in ancient times is not as exquisite as in modern times.
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In ancient times, peach wood has the effect of warding off evil spirits, and it is said that the use of peach branches can open the dividing line between the two realms of yin and yang, and if you add a red rope, you can drive away demons and evil spirits, so Tao Yuanming is likely to use peach wood as an opening chapter to bring characters into the world of the dead.
The season when the peach blossoms appear is around the Qingming Festival, and every household wants to worship the ancestors, which also pulls into the connection between their own other world and reality. Speculating in this way, it is true that "Peach Blossom Origin" began to appear gloomy.
Then there is the description of the house, terrain and road in the "Peach Blossom Origin", which can be combined with the ancient tombs, often the tombs of many ancestors are buried in the same place, and it is also very neat, so there is also a gap and a path between the cemeteries, which are very neat, which corresponds to the strange traffic in the "Peach Blossom Origin".
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In the article, it is also written that the villagers took out many items to entertain the fishermen, which is very rich like the ancestor worship is a tribute sacrifice. At this time, the atmosphere of "Peach Blossom Origin" gradually became strange.
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Finally, there is the costume of the villagers in Taohuayuan, in the "Peach Blossom Garden", the villagers tell the fisherman that in the early years, their ancestors hid here to escape the war and chaos, and they did not have contact with the outside world for a long time, so they did not know about the Qin and Han Dynasties, so there was no problem.
The problem is that the article describes that the villagers' costumes are still the costumes of the current society, which is the most strange, why the villagers who have not gone out for hundreds or even thousands of years have the clothes like the style of the world.
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It is very likely that these villagers are people who died in the war, but they do not know that they are dead, and the clothes may be burned by posterity to these dead people, so it is speculated that in fact, the "Peach Blossom Origin" records not the ideal world in Tao Yuanming's heart, but really may be a dead man's world!
epilogue:
The alternative interpretation of "Peach Blossom Origin" is indeed very insightful, and although this understanding has not been recognized, it can also be regarded as a different appreciation of a literary work, which is the charm of culture and art, and perhaps for people and ghosts, it has always been the object of human awe.
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