I want to present to you works of the graduate of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Yuan Xing Liang, who created amazing works inspired by the poem about the peach spring written in the 5th century.

One fisherman fell asleep in the boat during fishing and found himself in a strange place, where the whole shore was covered with blooming peach trees. The astonished fisherman swam to the edge of the peach forest, and there he discovered the spring feeding the river. There was a rock behind it. After squeezing into a narrow passage in the rock, the fisherman came to the village, inhabited by men, women, elderly, children and pets. Residents were surprised to see the stranger, but received him kindly. It turned out that their ancestors fled during the civil wars of Qin dynasty (2nd century BC) and since then had no contact with the outside world. Fisherman lived in a welcoming village for a few days, admiring the prosperity of the inhabitants. Returning home, he persuaded a few people to go to the village to learn how to live in such a reasonable and peaceful way. The fisherman carefully memorized the road, and they reached the rocks, which hid the peach spring. But there was no passage between the rocks. The expression "a peach spring" in the Chinese language has become an idiom, which means a perfect world.

Here's how Yuan Xing interpreted this poem in two sculptures.

All photos are taken from the Internet.