Selected paragraph:

Wen said: Good! I have listened to my master, so I must keep healthy.

Translation:

Liang said, "Good! After listening to my words, I understand the truth of health. " ?

Source: Zhuangzi's "Knowing Cows"

Extended data:

The fable in Zhuangzi's "The Lord of Health Preservation" is intended to explain the way of health preservation, but it objectively puts forward an aesthetic proposition. When an expert tries to understand a cow, his voice is all in the music, and his body moves like a dance, which goes beyond the sublimation of "skill" for practical purposes and reaches the height of "Tao" freedom. This super-utilitarian spiritual pleasure and enjoyment brought by creative freedom has entered the aesthetic field.

My understanding of "following nature" and "because it is natural" of cattle is completely in line with the law, and it is also a free activity that is not bound by the law. This is a state of beauty that fully grasps and transcends the free creation of objects. Zhuangzi objectively put forward a profound aesthetic proposition: the creation of true beauty should be a spiritual and free creation that fully grasps and transcends the non-utilitarian purpose of the object. It is free and regular, which embodies.