This story can be found in Feng Menglong's The Story of Warning in the Ming Dynasty. Said one day, Zhuangzi travel, saw a new grave, a young woman waving a fan in front of the grave. Zhuangzi was very surprised and asked, "Why did you fan the grave?" The young woman replied, "My husband is buried in this grave. He told me before he died that I couldn't remarry until the grave was dry, so I wanted to fan it dry as soon as possible. " Zhuangzi went home and told his wife Tian about it, teasing her and saying, "Are you one of these people?" Tian swears that she hates such a fickle and disloyal woman. A few days later, Zhuangzi suddenly fell ill and died. However, Tian flirted with the King Sun of Chu who came to pay his respects in front of Ling and wanted to marry him. King Sun of Chu suddenly suffered from angina pectoris and foaming at the mouth. The servant said that his master's problem could be cured by swallowing the brains of the living or the dead with hot wine. The chef split Zhuangzi's coffin with an axe and took his brain, but he heard Zhuangzi sigh and sit up. She tried to calm down, helped Zhuangzi get up and went back to the house, but the grandson of the King of Chu and his servant had disappeared. I was glad, but Zhuangzi said, "I want you to meet two people." Sun and his servant stood in front of him and waved, but Zhuangzi was gone. Look carefully, the grandson of the king of Chu and his servant are gone. It turns out that Zhuangzi did it to test his wife's loyalty. Tian had no face and hanged himself. From then on, Zhuangzi saw through life. After putting his wife in the broken coffin, he found a clay basin as a musical instrument and sang along with the drums.

There are two paragraphs about oneself in Zhuang Yang's Arbitrary Articles: one is Zhuang Zhou's Dream Butterfly, and the other is his wife's singing after her death. These two seemingly strange things are naturally "punch lines" adapted into plays and novels. At present, the earliest adapted drama is Shi Jiuxing's zaju "Dream Butterfly on Monday" in Yuan Dynasty. It tells the story of how Zhuang Zhou, a handsome young scholar, finally got rid of the secular world and rejoined the immortal class through his affair with the four fairies after experiencing a dissolute and rich life. The so-called "butterfly dream" is actually the legendary "Huangliang dream" in the Tang Dynasty. As can be seen from this script, Zhuang Zhou's butterfly dream has nothing to do with the wife in the Yuan story. However, in the17th century, after rewriting in the Ming Dynasty, the theme of the story changed from personal spiritual enlightenment to the judgment of moral issues in the relationship between husband and wife. Zhuang Zhou's wife, who has never appeared before, not only has her own name, but also becomes the protagonist of this story.

Relevant historical data prove that Zhuang had been transformed into Zhuang Zhou's trial wife by novelists and Buddhists at the latest in the late Ming Dynasty. (The Buddhist scrolls collected by Shanghai Library at the end of19th century show that the story of butterfly dreams has been transformed into the story of Zhuang Zhou's wife trial in the late Ming Dynasty. )