Question

What is the significance of the peach stone dropping and scaring the boy at the beginning and the peach blossom fluttering down and landing on the the boys drum at the end? Why did the author decide to use different objects at the different parts of the story?

Answer 1

the Peach Blossom Spring (Chinese: 桃花源記; pinyin: Táohuā Yuán Jì; lit.: 'Source of the Peach Blossoms', also translated as “(The Record of) the Peach Blossom”[1][2]), or Peach Blossom Spring Story or The Peach Blossom Land, was a fable written by Tao Yuanming in 421 CE about a chance discovery of an ethereal utopia where the people lead an ideal existence in harmony with nature, unaware of the outside world for centuries.

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