The writer Tao Yuanming once recorded the story of the Taoyuan Immortal Realm. It tells of a fisherman during the Eastern Jin period of Dragon Country who entered a peach grove. At the end of the grove was a small hill with a little cave entrance. Initially, the cave was very narrow, just wide enough for one person to pass through. After walking a few dozen more steps, it suddenly became spacious and bright.
Inside was a flat, wide expanse of land with rows of neatly arranged houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, and plants like mulberry trees and bamboo groves. Paths crisscrossed the fields, and the sounds of clucking chickens and barking dogs echoed intermittently. The men and women toiling in the fields were dressed just like people from the outside world. The old and the young were all content and living in peace.
