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If your computer is not set up to read BIG5 +encoding, the Chinese will appear as garbage characters. + + + + +Peach Blossom Shangri-la (Tao Hua Yuan Ji) + +By Tao Yuanming [1] + +During the Taiyuan era [2] of the Jin Dynasty [3] there was a +man of Wuling [4] who made his living as a fisherman. Once +while following a stream he forgot how far he had gone. He +suddenly came to a grove of blossoming peach trees. It lined +both banks for several hundred paces and included not a +single other kind of tree. Petals of the dazzling and +fragrant blossoms were falling everywhere in profusion. +Thinking this place highly unusual, the fisherman advanced +once again in wanting to see how far it went. + +The peach trees stopped at the stream's source, where the +fisherman came to a mountain with a small opening through +which it seemed he could see light. Leaving his boat, he +entered the opening. At first it was so narrow that he could +barely pass, but after advancing a short distance it suddenly +opened up to reveal a broad, flat area with imposing houses, +good fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, bamboo, and the +like. The fisherman saw paths extending among the fields in +all directions, and could hear the sounds of chickens and +dogs. Men and women working in the fields all wore clothing +that looked like that of foreign lands. The elderly and +children all seemed to be happy and enjoying themselves. + +The people were amazed to see the fisherman, and they asked +him from where he had come. He told them in detail, then the +people invited him to their home, set out wine, butchered a +chicken [5], and prepared a meal. Other villagers heard +about the fisherman, and they all came to ask him questions. +Then the villagers told him, "To avoid the chaos of war +during the Qin Dynasty [6], our ancestors brought their +families and villagers to this isolated place and never left +it, so we've had no contact with the outside world." They +asked the fisherman what the present reign was. They were +not even aware of the Han Dynasty [7], let alone the Wei [8] +and Jin. The fisherman told them everything he knew in great +detail, and the villagers were amazed and heaved sighs. Then +other villagers also invited the fisherman to their homes, +where they gave him food and drink. After several days +there, the fisherman bid farewell, at which time some +villagers told him, "It's not worth telling people on the +outside about us." [9] + +The fisherman exited through the opening, found his boat, and +retraced his route while leaving markers to find this place +again. Upon his arrival at the prefecture town he went to +the prefect and told him what had happened. The prefect +immediately sent a person to follow the fisherman and look +for the trail markers, but they got lost and never found the +way. + +Liu Ziji [10] of Nanyang [11] was a person of noble +character. When he heard this story he was happy and planned +to visit the Shangri-la, but he died of illness before he +could accomplish it. After that no one else ever looked for +the place. + +<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> + +Translator's Notes +[1] Chinese nature poet, c. 365-427. This prose story is +one of the poet's most well-known works. +[2] 376-396. +[3] 265-420 (actually two sequential dynasties, the +"Western" and the "Eastern"). +[4] A place in present-day Hunan Province. +[5] "...set out wine, butchered a chicken": A stock phrase +meaning to entertain a guest lavishly. +[6] 221-206 B.C. +[7] 206 B.C. to A.D. 220. +[8] A.D. 220-265. +[9] The villagers would just as soon keep their existence +secret. +[10] A retired scholar of the Jin Dynasty. +[11] A place in present-day Henan Province. + +This translation is based on the SiKuQuanShu text with +editorial emendations and punctuation by the translators. It +was done by Rick Davis (Japan) with help from David Steelman +(Taiwan). + +The original Chinese: + +桃花源記 + +陶淵明 + +晉太元中武陵人捕魚為業。緣溪行﹐忘路之遠近。忽逢 +桃花林﹐夾岸數百步中無雜樹﹐芳華鮮美落英繽紛。漁 +人甚異之。復前行欲窮其林。林盡水源便得一山。山有 +小口仿佛若有光。便捨船從口入。初極狹纔通人。復行 +數十步豁然開朗。土地平礦屋舍儼然。有良田美池桑竹 +之屬。阡陌交通雞犬相聞。其中往來種作。男女衣著悉 +如外人。黃髮垂髫並怡然自樂。見漁人乃大驚問所從來。 +具答之。便要還家為設酒殺雞作食。村中聞有此人咸來 +問訊。自云先世避秦時亂率妻子邑人。來此絕境不復出 +焉。遂與外人間隔。問今是何世乃不知有漢無論魏晉。 +此人一一為具言所聞皆歎惋。餘人各復延至其家皆出酒 +食。停數日辭去。此中人語云不足為外人道也。既出得 +其船便扶向路處處誌之。及郡下詣太守說如此。太守即 +遣人隨其往。尋向所誌遂迷不復得路。南陽劉子驥高尚 +士也。聞之欣然規往未果尋病終。後遂無問津者。 + + + + + +End Project Gutenberg Etext Peach Blossom Shangri-la, +by Tao YuanMing + |