Tracing the Origins of Yuanming - Chinese Wonderland

In China's vast cultural river of thousands of years, there are countless poems about landscape, ideal and life. However, there are only a handful of works that can truly transcend the times, span regions, and are deeply imprinted in the spirit of Chinese culture.

The Peach Blossom Spring written by Tao Yuanming, a writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is one of the most representative classics. It not only depicts an ideal and secret land hidden between mountains and rivers, but also embodies the eternal yearning of the Chinese people for peace, nature, tranquility and ideal life.

For thousands of years, people have been looking for "Peach Blossom Spring", but found that it is never just a geographical existence, but a destination of the spiritual world, a life realm about the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. Guilin Chinese Wonderland, is the "Peach Blossom Spring" as the cultural soul, combined with the Guilin landscape, oriental aesthetics and national culture, re-interpretation of this spanning thousands of years of Taoyuan dream.

Here, people not only read the Peach Blossom, more can really step into the Peach Blossom.

Tao Yuanming, a famous writer and poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was called "the clan of pastoral poetry" by later generations ". He lived in an era of political turmoil and war. The struggle between the gates, the social chaos and the hardship of the people's livelihood have caused countless literati to struggle between ideal and reality.

In his youth, Tao Yuanming also entered his official career with the ideal of helping the world, hoping to realize his ambition by virtue of his own ability. However, the darkness and hypocrisy of the real officialdom are incompatible with the truth, nature and freedom he pursues in his heart. In the end, he chose to resign and return to seclusion, and left the famous saying that has been passed down through the ages: "Don't bend for five bucket of rice."

this turn not only changed Tao Yuanming's life, but also deeply affected the understanding of "hermit spirit" in later Chinese culture. After the retreat of Tao Yuanming, away from power and disputes, return to pastoral life. He ploughed the fields and planted chrysanthemums, drank alcohol and wrote poems, accompanied by nature and made friends with the mountains and rivers.

In his works, the countryside is no longer just a rural scene, but a symbol of an ideal life. There is no power struggle, no secular hustle and bustle, and some are the purest relationship between man and nature. It is in this realm of life, "Peach Blossom Spring" was born. It can be said that Peach Blossom Spring is not only a literary work, but also the final presentation of Tao Yuanming's philosophy of life and spiritual ideals.

The full text of Peach Blossom Spring is not long, but it creates the most classic ideal world in Chinese culture.

The story tells of a fisherman walking along a stream and finding a hidden cave at the end of a colorful peach blossom forest. When he passed through the narrow hole, his eyes suddenly opened up and he entered a pure land isolated from the rest of the world. The land there is flat and the houses are like houses. The traffic in the fields, the chickens and dogs hear each other; The people live and work in peace and contentment, and the elderly and children are happy. There is no war, no oppression, no external chaos. People are far away from the world and live in harmony with nature. This kind of description is not only literary imagination, but also deeply reflects the common yearning of Chinese people for an ideal society.

The reason why Peach Blossom Spring can be passed down for thousands of years is because it touches the deepest emotions in human hearts-the desire for a peaceful life, the attachment to natural landscapes, and the pursuit of spiritual freedom. Therefore, "Peach Blossom Spring" gradually transcends the article itself and becomes the most representative spiritual symbol in the oriental culture. It symbolizes: a fairyland between mountains and rivers, a spiritual home away from disturbances, an ideal life of returning to nature, and a utopian world in oriental culture.

For thousands of years, countless poets, painters, and literati have been constantly depicting and pursuing the Peach Blossom Spring. Chinese Wonderland, on the other hand, hopes to turn this thousand-year-old literary artistic conception into a real world that can be felt, visited and experienced.

If "Peach Blossom Spring" created the ideal and secret realm in the hearts of the Chinese people, then the landscape of Guilin seems to be the true reflection of this literary world in the world. Since ancient times, Guilin has the reputation of "Guilin landscape in the world. Here peaks, surrounded by clear water, misty rain, pastoral quiet, natural has a transcendental Oriental artistic conception. And Chinese Wonderland, is to this "literature and reality fusion" concept to create.

From the beginning of the boat into the cave, tourists seem to follow the footsteps of the fisherman in Peach Blossom Spring and slowly enter another world. Dark caves, suddenly enlightened landscapes, light boats and blue waves, peach forests, rural villages and ethnic customs, together constitute an immersive oriental Taoyuan experience. Here is not only "watching the scenery", but also a kind of "entering the artistic conception". The relationship between people and the landscape is no longer just the relationship between tourists and scenic spots, but a reconnection between inner peace and spiritual belonging.

Therefore,Chinese Wonderland does not simply recreate the scene of Peach Blossom Spring, but hopes to re-present the spiritual world of Tao Yuanming in a new era. Tourists come here, not only to appreciate the landscape of Guilin, but also to find their own hearts of the peach blossom.

With the rapid development of modern society, people have more and more convenient life, but they are also facing more and more great mental pressure. The pace of the city is accelerating, information is mixed, emotional anxiety, and man and nature are drifting away. Therefore, people's yearning for "Peach Blossom Land" is more profound than in the past. Because what Peach Blossom Spring represents is never just seclusion, but a way of life in which man and nature coexist harmoniously and man and reconnect with his heart.

Chinese Wonderland what we hope to create is not only a traditional scenic spot, but also an oriental spiritual space integrating landscape, humanities, art, national culture and modern science and technology. It not only preserves the poetry and pastoral philosophy of the Tao Yuanming era, but also combines the cultural experience, immersion art, digital technology and international tourism vision of the new era.

From Guilin landscape to national culture, from intangible cultural heritage experience to immersion in light and shadow, from traditional Taoyuan to future oriental aesthetics,Chinese Wonderland is reinterpreting the era significance of "Peach Blossom Spring. This is not only the inheritance of classic culture, but also a re-creation of oriental spiritual civilization. Perhaps, everyone's heart, are hiding a piece of their own peach garden.

And Chinese Wonderland, I hope that this ideal spanning thousands of years will no longer stay in literary imagination, but truly become a fairyland on the world that can be seen, felt and remembered.

Photography Class Ruisong "Sky Light Shadows"

From a short essay by a literati in the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Oriental Republic, which spread for thousands of years;

from the idyllic world in Tao Yuanming's heart to the real artistic conception in Guilin's landscape.

Peach garden, never just a legend.

It is a cultural symbol of nature, tranquility and ideal life; it is also the most gentle yearning for a better world in the hearts of Chinese people.

Chinese Wonderland, with landscape as the volume and culture as the soul, reawakens the dream of Taoyuan sleeping for thousands of years.

When the canoe slowly through the cave, when the peach blossoms reflect the blue water, perhaps you will find--

the original real peach garden, has always been in people's hearts.

Photography Xia Lihui "The Sky"