Peach Blossom Shangri-la: Tao Hua Yuan Ji

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Title: Peach Blossom Shangri-la: Tao Hua Yuan Ji
Author: Tao Yuan Ming
Posting Date: October 26, 2008 [EBook #2090] Release Date: February, 2000
Language: English
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Peach Blossom Shangri-la (Tao Hua Yuan Ji)
By
Tao Yuan Ming
Translated and proofed by Rick Davis and David Steelman
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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 ...