Peach Blossom Spring

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For you, compared to the real past, all these were simply too new, and you wanted nothing to do with them, not to buy a magazine or enjoy a cup of coffee, since that would surely lead to the beginning of something that would soon disappear; otherwise, why would you have offered up so many lamentations wondering how to enter Qingguang Market? A location you vaguely recalled was now overrun by McDonald’s, Giordano, Sanshang qiaofu, Nicai Boutiques, or Wendy’s, 7-11, Michelle Fashions, and Hang Ten. You felt like the Jin dynasty fisherman from Wuling….  Page 161

它们相较于过往对你来说都曾是太新的东西，你不愿与它有任何关系，哪怕只是买本杂志喝杯咖啡，因为那注定又将种下一场流逝的开端，否则你如何能全心慨叹奇怪晴光市场要如何才能进入，你依稀记得的位置如今布满了麦当劳佐丹奴三商巧福尼采精品或温蒂7–11 米雪儿服饰HANG TEN，你仿佛晋太元中武林人捕鱼为业……Page 168

 

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All of a sudden you couldn’t recall what it had been before. Like an eyewitness who, after going to the police to report a dead body, returns to the scene only to see there was no body, no blood stains, everything normal, you told your future husband in a sobbing voice that the place was never like this or like this, that it should be like that and like that. In a panicky mood, you pointed here and there aimlessly; in a word, you were lost.

During the Taiyuan Reign of the Jin Dynasty a fisherman of Wuling once rowed upstream, unmindful of the distance he had gone….  Page 173-174

刹那间你竟然也想不起来原来该是什么，你像个发现尸体报了警回现场却见尸体也没了血迹也没了一切完好如常的目击者，你哽咽的告诉未来的丈夫，这里原来不是如此如此，应该好像是那样那样慌张的漫空指东指西，总之，你迷路了。

晋太元中，武林人捕鱼为业，缘溪行，忘路之远近…… Page 176

 

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It was “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree,” a popular song in your youth….. In your memory, the only comparable scene was the Suzhou described in poems and lyrics, and Master Liu’s Canal, which ran past the side gate of your college when you were still a student there…..You liked the song so much you were reluctant to stay for the whole thing, so you slowly walked away.

During the Taiyuan Reign of the Jin Dynasty a fisherman of Wuling once rowed upstream, unmindful of the distance he had gone, when he suddenly came to a grove of peach trees….     Page 185

歌是你年轻时候的流行歌《系条黄丝带在老橡树上》….. 记忆中，只有诗词描述的苏州和大学时学校侧门琉公圳畔的情景可比….. 你喜欢得不得了的，因此不忍卒听，渐行渐远。

晋太元中，武陵人捕鱼为业，缘溪行，忘路之远近，忽逢桃花林…..    Page 184

 

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In the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, the Quanzhou immigrant, Chen Laizhang, was permitted to develop the wilderness of Dajia nabao, and Mengjia gradually grew into a village…..

During the Taiyuan Reign of the Jin Dynasty a fisherman of Wuling once rowed upstream, unmindful of the distance he had gone, when he suddenly came to a grove of peach trees in bloom… the wild flowers grew beneath them, and fallen petals covered the ground — it made a great impression on the fisherman…..

It made a great impression on the fisherman. He went on for a way with the idea of finding out how far the grove extended. It came to an end at the foot of a mountain whence issued the spring that supplied the stream. There was a small opening in the mountain, and it seemed as though light was coming through it…. Page 198

清康熙四十八年，泉州移民陈赖章垦号获准开垦大加蚋堡之野，艋胛渐成村落…..

晋太元中，武陵人捕鱼为业，缘溪行，忘路之远近，忽逢桃花林，芳草鲜美，落英缤纷，渔人甚异之……

渔人甚异之，复前行，欲穷其林，林尽水源，便得一山，山有小口，仿佛若有光…..有一刻恍惚，你不知置身何处，阡陌交通，其中往来男女衣着悉如日人，黄发垂髫，怡然自乐。  Page 193

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So you chose to walk back to Seimon Market through Suehiro-machi…. What had attracted you to that fable had to do with the spirits that had ended up here after a period of wandering, just like you. Their ancestors had fled the disorders of Qin times and, having taken refuge here with wives and children and neighbors, had never ventured out again; consequently they had lost all contact with the outside world. They asked what the present dynasty was, for they had never heard of the Han, let alone the Wei and the Jin.  Page 199

 

于是你择末广町走回西门市场…..寓言故事里吸引你的是那与你一样流落在此的狐仙神魂，避秦时乱，率妻子邑人来此绝境，不复出焉，遂与外人间隔，问今是何世，乃不知有汉，无论魏晋。    Page 193

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To the left was Zhao’an Market, Zhao’an Hamlet. The people of Zhao’an, Zhangzhou, made a living fishingー

Mitsuhashi-machi. The gunite exterior of the Renaissance-style bank was filthy. It had taken the place of a small community park with lush, fragrant grass and pretty flowers.   Page 202-203

左侧是照安市场，诏安厝，漳州诏安人捕鱼为业ー

三桥町。仿文艺复兴式的银行，喷浆材料显得脏兮兮的，它占着的位置原来是芳草鲜美落英缤纷的社区小公园。 Page 196

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At the corner of Guide Street, Inagakei Tobei from Hyogo County had once run People’s Home and the Inari-ko Charity School to give the poor, colonized children a free education. The place was now the location of the Co-op Bank (city, bank, prostitution). You continued on through the forest, and where it ended at a source of water, there was an empty warehouse like building. Page 212

贵德街口，昔年兵库县人稻垣藤兵卫在此办“人类之家”、“稻江艺塾”，免费教育被殖民的困苦儿童，现在是合作金库（城市，银行嫖妓……），复前行，欲穷其林，林尽水源，有仓库也似的空屋一幢。 Page 202

 

 

 

 

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During the Taiyuan Reign of the Jin Dynasty a fisherman of Wuling once rowed upstream, unmindful of the distance he had gone, when he suddenly came to a grove of peach trees in bloom… the wild flowers grew beneath them, and fallen petals covered the ground — it made a great impression on the fisherman. He went on for a way….

But where would you be when you walked past the small sluice gate after risking your life to cross Huanhe Road (the dump trucks, as usual, showed no sign of slowing down or braking when they came to a red light)?

There was a small opening in the mountain, and it seemed as though light was coming through it. The fisherman left his boat and entered the cave, which at first was extremely narrow, barely admitting his body; after a few dozen steps it suddenly opened out onto a broad and level plain… it turned out to be the Dadaocheng Pier for the Mahasattva Ferry. You were hoping to use the toilet in the tiny pier office, but you didn’t see even the shadow of a dog, let alone a person. So you headed toward the riverbank.

This riverbank had no rich fields and pretty ponds. No mulberry, bamboo, and other trees grew there, no criss-cross paths skirting the fields, no sounds of cocks crowing and dogs barking, but where were you?   Page 214

晋太元中，武陵人捕鱼为业，缘溪行，忘路之远近，忽逢桃花林，夹岸数百步，中无杂树，芳草鲜美，落英缤纷，渔人甚异之，复前行……

然而你冒死穿过环河路（砂石车照例遇红灯没有半点减速刹车的意思），不知穿过小小的堤防水门外会是哪里？

……山有小口，仿佛若有光，便舍船从口入，初极狭，才通人，复行数十步，豁然开朗，土地平旷，原来是摩萨渡船的大稻埕码头，你很想借码头小办公室上厕所，但见连条狗影都没有，无论人影。你便朝江畔走去。

江畔并无良田美池桑竹之属，阡陌交通，远处可闻鸡犬，但这是哪里？Page 203

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So you walked toward the place in the distance where men and women were coming and going about their work in the fields. The clothes they wore were like those of ordinary people. Old men and boys were carefree and happy …

When they caught sight of the fisherman, even though they didn’t ask you where you came from, you wondered how they could tell you were a foreigner, as you reflected that you’d lost your colonial map and had no red letter tattooed on your face … You’d barely entered the village when pairs of eyes the same age as you father’s came at you, showing surprise and fear, and they asked you where you came from … After clearing things up, they began to complain to you, but as he was about to go away, the people said, “There’s no need to mention our existence to outsiders.”  Page 214-215

于是你往远处有种作男女人迹处行，种作男女衣着悉如外人，黄发垂髫，怡然自乐

男女见渔人乃大惊，虽未问所从来，你检点自己以丢了殖民地地图，脸上也无刺青红字，他们何能认出你是异国之人？…… 才进村子，立即一双双像你父亲同样年纪的眼睛惊怒向你，问所从来…… 待明白了，便纷纷向你抒发诉苦，只是走前再再叮嘱此中人语云，不足为外人道也。    Page 204

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As expected, you heard the men and women behind say something, but you ignored them, preferring to head toward the sunny basketball court where a few youngsters were having a pick-up game, not caring if she was invited to go to their house, where she would be served wine while they killed someone for a feast.     Page 216

你果然听到身后不远处有男女向你发言声，你不理，执意往有阳光并有几名少年在斗牛的篮球场走去，不理他们是因为可能会便要还家，设酒杀人作食。  Page 204

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Their ancestors had fled the disorders of Qin times and, having taken refuge here with wives and children and neighbors, had never ventured out again; consequently they had lost all contact with the outside world. They asked what the present ruling dynasty was, for they had never heard of the Han, let alone the Wei and the Jin … near the overpass, the gray wall that kept getting taller, like a prison wall, was clean and unmarked, no graffiti, nothing!

What is this place?… You began to wail.

…

A shimmering ocean, a beautiful island, the essential site of our sage kings and wise elders’ destiny.    Page 218

先世避秦时乱，率妻子邑人来此绝境，不复出焉，遂与外人间隔，问今是何世，乃不知有汉，更无论魏晋……近高架公路了，愈发高耸如监狱围墙似的灰墙，素净的没有半点涂鸦，没有半点！

这是哪里？……你放声大哭。

……

婆娑之洋，美丽之岛，我先王先民之景命，实式凭之。  Page 205

 

 

 

 

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