{"id":270,"date":"2020-02-17T21:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-02-17T21:46:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:46:59","slug":"the-peach-blossom-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/02\/17\/the-peach-blossom-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peach Blossom Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when reading a textbook, I tend to skip the asides; anything that isn&#8217;t a part of the main text. In the case of the Craig chapters, I&#8217;ve found the side passages to be really interesting. My favorite from chapter three was &#8220;The Peach Blossom Spring.&#8221; It is a poem from Tao Qian, and it tells of a fisherman who stumbles upon a lost village, with a community of people living in simplicity and peace.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is very visually descriptive, so I decided to look up Chinese art influenced by the story. Here are my three favorites:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/bd\/ce\/25\/bdce254f495c40d6eed25476aa099800.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/qi-baishi_peach-blossom-spring.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnet.com\/WebServices\/images\/ll02133lldFGRJFg4ZeR3CfDrCWvaHBOcXnJF\/ou-haonian-\u6843\u6797\u5915\u6e21--peach-blossom-spring.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when reading a textbook, I tend to skip the asides; anything that isn&#8217;t a part of the main text. In the case of the Craig chapters, I&#8217;ve found the side passages to be really interesting. My favorite from chapter three was &#8220;The Peach Blossom Spring.&#8221; It is a poem from Tao Qian, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}