Introduction to Peach Blossom Temple: When Tang Bohu was thirty-eight years old, he saved some money by selling calligraphy and paintings. He built a pastoral villa in the mountains based on Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden on the ruins of the original Zhangzhuang villa of the Song Dynasty in Taohuawu in the north of the city. This villa is actually just a few elegant thatched cottages, a few bamboo pavilions, a bamboo stream hall, and a butterfly room; a clear stream winds through the garden, with a willow tree and a peach tree outside the stream; a medicine fence is set up. After dredging, lotus flowers were planted and pond fish were raised in the Shuanghe Pond. Because Tang Bohu liked peach blossoms the most, he named it "Peach Blossom Temple" after it was completed. He called himself the Lord of Peach Blossom Temple and also composed "Song of Peach Blossom Temple".

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