The Peach-Blossom Spring was included in the collection Sou Shen Hou Ji (Sequel to In Search of the Supernatural), and in his poem A Walk Through the Peach-Blossom Spring, wang Wei (701-761) writes that its inhabitants "were first isolated from the mortal world by remoteness, but after becoming immortals, did not return" --there is no doubt in his mind that it is indeed a fairy realm.
桃花源一文就被收集在《搜神後記》中，王維在七言樂府「桃源行」裡，說桃花源村民是「初因避地去人間，及至神仙遂不還」，「一口咬定」它有仙境含意。