Taohuatan Zhen literally "Pool of Peach Blossoms", is a town in
Xuancheng
Xuancheng () is a city in the southeast of Anhui province. Archeological digs suggest that the city has been settled for over 4,000 years, and has been under formal administration since the Qin dynasty. Located in the lower Yangtze River drainage ...
, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China.
Literature
Taohuatan Town is featured in "To Wang Lun", a poem by
Li Bai
Li Bai (, 701–762), also pronounced as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (), was a Chinese poet, acclaimed from his own time to the present as a brilliant and romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights. He and his friend Du F ...
:
李白乘舟將欲行
忽聞岸上踏歌聲
桃花潭水深千尺
不及汪倫送我情
A boat I have boarded, Li Bai am I, and I'm all set to go,
When suddenly from the shore a din I hear, of stomping and singing I know.
The water in the Pool of Peach Blossoms is a thousand feet deep,
Deep not as the parting sentiments, to me, Wang Lun, you show.
References
Towns in Anhui
Xuancheng
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