First of all, we carefully restore the path of fishermen entering the Peach Blossom Garden according to the text.
"The mountain has a small mouth, as if there is light. Only by being narrow at first can we understand people. Take a few steps and you will be suddenly enlightened. "
The fisherman first saw a small mouth in the mountain, which seemed to have light, and went in.
At first, it was very narrow. After dozens of steps, I became spacious and entered the Peach Blossom Garden.
That's what the text says, right?
According to Xu's introduction and analysis of the secret burial scriptures of the original mausoleum, in Qin, Han, Wei and Jin dynasties, in order to prevent grave robbery, the tomb door was made narrow in front and wide in the back.
For example, Cao Cao's cenotaph reported in the news a few years ago is like this.
In order to avoid death, the people will not make the village community and their homes narrow at the front and wide at the back. Otherwise, you will live like a dead man.
Another evidence found is that there was a man named Guo Pu at the same time as Tao Yuanming. He is recognized as the originator of Feng Shui in China. He is a master of truth and wrote a book "Buried Sutra".
"Buried Sutra" said: Taosang in front of the door is a big killer.
Let's look at the original text:
Suddenly I met the peach blossom forest and grabbed the shore for hundreds of steps. There are no miscellaneous trees in it, and the grass is delicious and colorful.
The land is flat and spacious, so is the house. There are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees and bamboo.
Peach and mulberry gather in the shade.
The tomb structure is surrounded by mountains and waters, with mulberry and bamboo hanging in the shade and peach trees to ward off evil spirits. These cemeteries at that time were all standard, and they were all living people in the Peach Blossom Garden.
The time difference between Tao Yuanming and Guo Pu is only a few decades. Won't a scholar like Tao Yuanming notice this big bug that violated the social customs at that time?
Of course, this alone may not be convincing enough, and it is suspected of over-interpretation.
There is a more important clue. The fisherman strayed into the underworld and met a ghost.
According to written records, the ancestors of Taohuayuan villagers came from the Qin Dynasty. In order to escape the war, he settled here and was isolated from the world for generations until the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Look clearly, they have been isolated from the world and have never had any contact with the outside world.
But the author mentioned that after 500 years from the end of Qin Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, these people actually wore the same clothes as the people outside.
"Men and women dress like strangers"
In fact, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Hanfu was obviously influenced by the northern nationalities. Its clothing style is really different from that of Daqin 500 years ago.
Where did the clothes come from?
One of them speculated that the clothes these people were wearing were burned during the sacrifice.
This inference is logically correct, but the problem lies in the key evidence "men and women dress like strangers", which has been controversial in translation.
Some scholars think that "outsiders" refer to people outside the Peach Blossom Garden, while others, on the contrary, think that they are people outside the world.
Have any reliable people made scientific research on this matter?