At first, there were dozens of comments on Zhuangzi, but none of them could explore its essence. Xiang Xiu sought a new explanation beyond the old annotations, and carefully analyzed its peculiar taste, which greatly smoothed the metaphysical meaning of Zhuangzi. Xiang embroidery died without comments in two articles, Qiushui and Zhile. Xiangxiu's son is still very young, so Xiangxiu's notes are lost, but there are other manuscripts. Guo Xiang is a man of bad conduct, but he has extraordinary intelligence. He saw that the notes of Xiang embroidery would not be circulated in the world, so he copied them as his own notes. So I annotated two articles, Qiushui and Zhile, and changed the annotation of Horseshoe. Some annotations of the rest articles were only for modifying sentences. Later, another book with a revised annotation was circulated, so now there are two Zhuangzi Annotations, Xiang Xiu and Guo Xiang, which have the same meaning.

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There were dozens of people who commented on Zhuangzi at the beginning, so it was impossible to study its purport. Xiang embroidery solves the old and annotates the external meaning, analyzes the wonders wonderfully, and makes great efforts to explore the mysterious wind. Only "Autumn Water" and "Happiness" are unfinished, indicating death. Xiuzi is young, with scattered benevolence and righteousness, but he still has other books. Guo Xiangzhe is thin and talented. Seeing that the rest didn't spread to the world, I stole it for myself. It is a self-annotation of two articles, Qiu Shui and Zhi Le, and one article, Horseshoe, and the rest of the articles are just fixed-point sentences. After the performance, the meaning is different, so today there is a direction, Guo erzhi's "Zhuang", which also means one.

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Xiang Xiu (about 227-272) was born in Huai, Hanoi (now southwest of Wuzhi, Henan). Elegant and fond of reading, living in seclusion, making friends with Ji Kang, Lu An and others, is one of the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest". He likes to talk about the knowledge of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi. He wrote Zhuangzi, but he died before he finished it. Guo Xiangcheng wrote Thirty-three Notes on Zhuangzi, which had a far-reaching influence on metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties. There are other works, such as Nostalgia and Theory of Keeping Healthy at Night. In the fourth year of Jingyuan (263), after Ji Kang and Lu An were killed, the county was included in Luo and was taken over by. Later, he went to Huangmen to serve as an assistant rider and died in the eighth year of Taishi (272).

Guo Xiang (? —3 12): Zi Zixuan, a native of Luoyang, Henan. Metaphysics in the Western Jin Dynasty. Few people are reasonable, good at Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, eloquent and often live in seclusion. Let Stuart be in charge and move to Huangmen Assistant Minister. Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, was cited as the master book of a certain division and was closely related to the committee. For the theory at that time, it was light to hold an exclusive position. On the basis of Zhuangzi's Annotation, Xiang Xiu wrote Zhuangzi's Annotation. In a word, he advocated the theory of "individualization" and that teaching by name was nature, which was a master of metaphysics at that time.