Although in the minds of the ancients fairylands were extensions of the real world, the more distant and unattainable they were, the more scope they left for the imagination. The island of Penglai was hazy and indistinct, and the mountains of Kunlun vague and remote.
仙境在古人心中雖是現實世界的延伸，但愈是遙不可及，愈有想像空間。