Zhuangzi, the word Zhou, was born in the Warring States Period (now Mengcheng, Anhui). He was a great thinker, philosopher and writer in the pre-Qin period of China. He is an important representative of Taoist school after Laozi, and he is also called "Laozi and Zhuangzi" with Laozi.
In view of Zhuangzi's important contribution in the history of literature and thought, he was later named "South China True Man" by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and the book Zhuangzi was also called "South China True Classics".
According to Records of Historical Records, Zhuangzi once worked as an official of lacquer garden, that is, a small official who managed the forest farm. He has never been rich or expensive in his life, and he often lives in poverty.
Zhuangzi despises wealth and fame, and has always maintained an independent personality in troubled times. He thought that Wang Yang was wantonly detached.
Zhuangzi is divided into three parts: internal, external and miscellaneous. According to legend, Zhuangzi's seven works, such as Wandering, The Theory of Everything and A Generation of Masters, are original works, reflecting Zhuangzi's philosophical thoughts.
It is generally believed that Waipian was written by Zhuangzi's disciples, while Zawen was written by Zhuangzi School and later scholars.
Zhuangzi's influence on later generations is not only manifested in his profound and unique philosophical thoughts, but also in his literary attainments.
Zhuangzi's articles are imaginative, dialectical in thinking, interesting and changeable in writing, and good at illustrating philosophy with fables, giving people a sense of detachment and elegance.
The style of "Zhuangzi" has deviated from the classics, which represents the highest achievement of pre-Qin prose. Mr. Lu Xun spoke highly of this: "Wang Yang is the king and generous, and the works of the late Qin philosophers should not be the first."
With the wisdom of philosophers, the elegance of writers, the feelings of aestheticians and the depth of thinkers, the old immortals in the South told a free, free and indifferent life.
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Reading "Zhuangzi" has a feeling, "I can afford it, but I can't let it go. I can put it down, but I can't afford it. " This is a kind of ambivalence, look! It's really hard to understand. No, look! Another mysterious force attracts you, just like a maze full of temptation, which makes you want to stop.
In my opinion, The Theory of Everything is the most wonderful one, which embodies Zhuangzi's core philosophical thought with profound philosophy and obscure language.
Because of its profound reasoning, the theory of everything in ancient and modern times has the most annotations, each with its own reasons, which makes people feel at a loss and at a loss.
If you want to perceive the mystery of The Theory of Everything, you must understand it again and again. Although you may not be able to accurately grasp and understand its true meaning, you can experience your mental journey.
Just like climbing a mountain peak, although it has gone through thousands of difficulties and dangers, when the mountain peak turns to the top, it will present a different kind of scenery!
Zhuangzi's philosophical viewpoint is "Heaven and earth coexist with me, and everything is one with me", which is the crowning touch in The Theory of Everything and shows Zhuangzi's philosophical ambition of "reconciling everything with cognition".
Zhuangzi, the only Taoist school to explore the mysteries of the universe in the pre-Qin period, inherited and carried forward Laozi's philosophical thought, which was unique in human self-cognition and exploring the relationship between man and nature.
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At the beginning of "The Theory of Everything", Zhuangzi designed a mysterious scene with superb freehand brushwork, wonderful allegorical scene description, and super ability to control words, as if an invisible big hand had caught the reader's heart.
Guo Zi, sitting quietly, looking up at the sky, hissing, seems to have lost his coupling. Yan swam to the front and waited on him and said, "Where do you live? A solid shape can make it look like a piece of wood, but a solid heart can make it look like ashes? Today's hidden machine is not the hidden machine of the past. " Zi Qi said, "hold bad, but to ask? Do you know my loss today? Women can hear people, but they can't hear the ground. Women can hear the ground, but they can't hear Tianfu! "
Guo Ziqi looks like a Zen master in meditation, with a soft body, raised his head and slowly exhaled into the sky. That carefree and carefree feeling is like an out-of-body experience.
Student Yan Chengzi stood by and said, "What's the matter? It is true that the figure can be like rotten wood, and the spirit and thoughts can be like ashes? "
Qing Zi replied, "I forgot myself today, you know?" You have heard of' whispering in the world', but you have never heard of' whispering in the world'. Even if you have heard of' the earth shakes', you have never heard of' nature'! "
After understanding this passage, I entered a state of burning my brain and couldn't figure out what it meant. What does Zhuangzi want to express?
Zhuangzi's description of Qi's fascination is a must, with vivid expression and superb characterization.
In fact, Zhuangzi talked about the mystery of "all things are one" through the mouth of Qing Zi, that is, the concept of "nature". There are different opinions about the interpretation of "nature" in ancient and modern times, some about the sound of nature, some about the generation of all things, and some about people's complex emotions.
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Zi You said, "Everyone knows when the earth rings, but people are not as good as bamboo when they ring. Dare to ask the voice of heaven. " Zi Qi said: "Genius people boast of all kinds of differences and achieve themselves. Salty is self-inflicted, who is angry? "
Ziyou said: "The earth is the sound made by a hole in the ground, and people are the sound made by silk and bamboo. I will venture to ask you what nature is. "
Qing Zi said: "The so-called nature means that everything is different from each other, and each produces its own appearance. Are naturally formed. Is there any external force to push them? "
"Blowing the difference" is an important philosophical concept put forward by Zhuangzi. Blowing ten thousand is the way to create all things, and blowing ten thousand is nature. Zhuangzi described the earth as the earth exhales, which is called wind, and the wind blows everything to make different sounds.
Although the wind is very different, the essence is the same, that is, "the breath of the earth." With the help of silk and bamboo, human lai blows out different sounds to express different human emotions, such as joy, joy, lingering, sadness, melancholy, pain and sadness. They are rich, complex and changeable, which are essentially the exposure of human emotional changes.
What Zhuangzi wants to express is the essence of "all things are one". Everyone was sleeping, and I woke up alone. Zhuangzi is lonely. He wants to tell all sentient beings in his own unique way what is the most essential thing!
Man's voice needs to be created artificially, and the voice of the earth needs to be inspired by others. Only nature, nothing else, is unnatural, natural and in line with the Tao.
Zhuangzi inherited Laozi's thought of "Tao" and thought that "man should be everywhere, the land should follow the sky, the sky should follow the Tao, and the Tao should be natural". Everything in the universe is born of Tao, naturally, there is no external force. And man is the spirit of all things and undertakes the mission of nature, so Zhuangzi regards man as the representative of nature.
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If you don't have me, you don't have me. It's close, too. I don't know what it's doing. If there is a massacre, it must not be me.
Without external things corresponding to me, there would be no me, and without me, there would be no way to present external things. This kind of understanding seems to be closer to the essence of things, but I don't know what drives all this.
It seems that there is a "real slaughter", but there is no clue. This passage is still the same as I thought, "nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth; Fame is the mother of everything. "
At the beginning of the chaos of heaven and earth, there was no name because chaos could not be distinguished. When the world is separated from everything, there is the concept of name, otherwise it is impossible to distinguish everything. In other words, with the distinction of names, everything comes into being, otherwise there will be nothing.
This is very important. With self-awareness, mankind began to examine the difference between man and everything, which is a great progress. Since then, human beings have "separation of heart", selfishness and greed, argument, right and wrong, emotions and so on.
The theory of the homology of all things contains two meanings, that is, the "cosmology" and "epistemology" of the unity of all things, and the human world is essentially composed of these two parts.
Through the analysis of The Theory of Everything, this paper breaks the psychedelic scene that blinds the eyes, polishes the mirror of the soul that has been dusty for a long time, and reveals the truth of the avenue.