晋太元中，武陵人捕鱼为业，缘溪行，忘路之远近。

　　Once a time there was a fisherman whose native land was called Wuling, in the Taiyuan Period of Time of the Jin Dynasty [265-420], China. He was walking along a creek-riverside, with no sense of how far away from his start.

　　忽逢桃花林，夹岸数百步，中无杂树，芳草鲜美，落英缤纷;渔人甚异之。

　　All of a sudden, he was surprised to find a Peach-Blossom-Grove, and on both sides across the creek with hundreds-of-feet-wide land, no other trees but peach ones grow with fresh and sweet grass petals falling in riotous profusion.

　　复前行，欲穷其林。林尽水源，便得一山。山有小口，仿佛若有光;便舍船从口入。初极狭，才通人;复行数十步，豁然开朗。

　　Going on forward, he wanted to pass through the whole grove reaching a fountainhead near a mountain. There was a small hole seemingly glittering in front of the mountain. And he left his boat, entering the hole as an open door being so narrow that only one man could press himself to penetrate into it. Continuing for over tens-of-feet distance, he found the view instantly clearing up.

　　土地平旷，屋舍俨然，有良田、美池、桑竹之属;阡陌交通，鸡犬相闻。其中往来种作，男女衣著，悉如外人;黄发垂髫，并怡然自乐。

　　The land being spacious, houses set out in neat order. On the rich land with a beautiful pool, growing were bamboo, mulberry and the like. Everywhere was in good connections with crisscross footpaths between fields where cocks’ crying and dogs’ barking could be faintly heard, and all the farmers were plowing, sowing or weeding back and forth. The clothing of men or women was similar to the people outside. The people, old and young, felt happy and pleased with themselves.

　　见渔人，乃大惊;问所从来，具答之。便要还家，设酒，杀鸡作食;村中闻有此人，咸来问讯。