Keiko called Zhuangzi and said, "Wang Wei made me a big species and achieved five stones. In order to fill water slurry, its firmness cannot be bootstrapped. If you regard it as a ladle, there is no room for it. It's not too big, but I'm sorry it's useless. " Zhuangzi said, "The master used it badly. In the Song Dynasty, some good people didn't eat turtle hand medicine, and took it as a matter of the world. When the guests hear it, please buy its square hundred gold. Get together and ask:' I have lived for so long, but I only counted gold. I have gained one hundred gold skills, so please come with me. The guest got the news that the king of Wu. The more difficult it is, Wu Yueyue will do it. In winter, he will fight with the Vietnamese and defeat them. Split the ground and seal it up. If you don't help the tortoise, or seal it, or you can't help it, it will be different. This son has five stone heads. Why don't you think it's a big bottle floating in the Jianghu, but you're worried that it will be lost? The master still has a heart and a husband! "
Translation:
Keiko said to Zhuangzi, "Wang Wei gave me the seed of a big gourd. After I plant it, the gourd is big enough to hold five stone heads. Use it to hold water, but it's too fragile to lift. Chop it as a spoon, it's too big and shallow to hold anything. This is not because it is not big, but because it is useless and I smashed it. " Zhuangzi said, "You are really not good at using big objects. In the Song Dynasty, there was a man who was good at making drugs to prevent his hands from freezing and cracking. His family has been rinsing silk cotton for generations. A guest heard about it and asked for 100 gold to buy his prescription. The Song countryman called the whole family to discuss and said,' My family has been using this medicine for rinsing silk floss for generations, and the income a year is only a few ounces of gold; Now once you sell this prescription, you will get 100 gold immediately. Please promise me to sell it. The guest bought a prescription and went to lobby the king of Wu. At that time, Vietnam was in trouble, and the king of Wu appointed him as a general to fight a water war with the Vietnamese in winter. (Wu people use medicine that doesn't touch turtle hands), when they defeat the Vietnamese, the king of Wu will be rewarded by cutting land and sealing Hou. It is also a prescription to prevent hand frost crack. Some people get paid for it, while others just use it to wash silk cotton. This is because the use method is different. Since you have a big gourd that can hold five stone heads, why not tie it to your body as a waist boat and float around the rivers and lakes? But you are worried that it is too big to hold, which shows that your heart is too shallow and narrow! "
Introduction to Zhuangzi:
Zhuangzi (about 369-286), Han nationality. Zhou, whose real name is Zi Xiu, was later called "South China Real Person". Song (now Mengcheng County, Anhui Province, now Minquan County, Shangqiu County, Henan Province) was born in the Warring States Period. A famous thinker, philosopher and writer, a representative of Taoist school, the successor and developer of Laozi's philosophical thought, and the founder of Zhuangzi school in pre-Qin. His theory covered all aspects of social life at that time, but the fundamental spirit still belonged to Laozi's philosophy. Later generations called him and Laozi "Laozi", and their philosophy was "Laozi's philosophy".
His thought contains simple dialectical factors, the main idea is "Heaven does nothing", and he thinks that everything changes. He believes that "Tao" is "the place of life" and a subjective idealism system starting from "Tao has no beginning" (that is, "Tao" has no boundary). Advocate "inaction" and give up everything. He also believes that everything is relative, so he denies knowledge, denies the essential difference of everything, denies reality, fantasizes about a subjective spiritual realm of "heaven and earth coexist with me, and everything is one with me", and turns to relativism and fatalism. Politically, it advocates "governing by doing nothing", opposes all social systems and abandons all cultural knowledge.
Zhuangzi's articles are rich in imagination, changeable in style, full of romanticism, humorous and satirical in the form of fables, which have a great influence on the literary language of later generations. Zhuang Zhou, his disciples and later scholars wrote Zhuangzi (regarded as a southern classic by Taoism), which is one of the Taoist classics. There are 52 Zhuangzi articles recorded in the Records of Han Shu Literature and Art, and only 33 exist. Among them, there are seven chapters, which are generally designated as Zhuangzi; Foreign essays may be mixed with his disciples and later Taoist works.
Zhuangzi is of great philosophical and literary value. Famous articles include "Happy Travel", "On Wuqi" and "Health Master". , and the "clever solution of cattle" in "Master of Health" is particularly popular in later generations.