\'Sir, do you like to travel? There are ten miles of peach blossoms here. Sir, do you like to drink? There are thousands of hotels here. What does this ancient saying mean?

This is a sentence from a letter written by Wang Lun, a local gentleman in Jing County in the Tang Dynasty, to the great poet Li Bai.

At that time, Li Bai lived in the Dangtu and Xuancheng areas. Wang Lunshi admired Li Bai very much, so he wrote a letter inviting Li Bai to visit Jing County.

Because he was worried that Jingxian County was not famous for its good mountains and rivers, Li Bai might not be willing to come. However, he heard that Li Bai liked to drink, so he wrote these two sentences in the letter.

Literal meaning: Do you like sightseeing? There are miles of peach blossoms here; do you like drinking? There are many hotels here.

The so-called ten miles and ten thousand families are function words in ancient texts, and they are not really ten miles and ten thousand families.

It is said that the actual situation is that there is a local place named "Shili" with many peach blossoms; there is a hotel named Wanjia Hotel named Wanjia Hotel.

Li Bai was very tempted after seeing the letter, so he went. When he arrived at the so-called Shili Peach Blossom and Ten Thousand Hotels, he knew that the owner meant to invite guests, so he laughed it off and stayed happily for a while. When he left, he left behind the famous song "To Wang Lun" that will be passed down through the ages.