Original text:
At the beginning of Zhuang Zichu, he saw a short bone and a tangible skull. Beat him with a horse, so he asked him, "What is the master's greed for life and ignorance?" Will the son have the matter of national subjugation, axe axe, why? Will the son have a hard time and be ashamed of the ugliness of his parents and wife? Why? Will the child be hungry and cold? Why? "What about the spring and autumn of Gyangze?" So he said goodbye, held the skull and lay on his pillow.
In the middle of the night, everyone had a dream and said, "My son's talker is like a debater. All philosophers say that it is very tiring for a stranger, but there is no such thing as death. " What about the idea that I want to smell death? "Zhuangzi said," of course. He Huansheng, why die? "
"You are dead, there is no monarch above, there is no minister below, and there are no four seasons. Since heaven and earth are spring and autumn, we can't cross Wang Le south. " Zhuangzi doesn't believe me. He said: "I revived Siming in the shape of a child, which is the skin of the child's flesh and blood and is contrary to his parents, wife, knowledge and desire." Skull frowned deeply and said, "I can abandon Wang Le in the south and go back to work for the world!" "
Translation:
On the way to the state of Chu, Zhuangzi saw a skeleton, which showed its original shape. Zhuangzi tapped from the side with a whip. So he asked, "Mr. Wang is greedy for life and lost his way, so what is it?"
Or meet with national subjugation, was chopped by a knife and axe, thus becoming like this? Or have you had bad behavior, worried about leaving shame on your parents, wife and children, and died of shame? Still hungry and cold?
Or enjoy life and just die? Zhuangzi said, "Take the bones and sleep as a pillow. In the middle of the night, the skeleton showed Zhuangzi a dream and said, "What you said earlier is really like a person who is good at arguing. Look at what you said, it all belongs to the detention of the living, and people will not worry about it when they die.
Do you want to hear the truth after death? "Zhuangzi said," good. "The skeleton said," Once a person dies, there will be no monarch's rule and no official's jurisdiction. "Without the hard work of the four seasons, the long life of heaven and earth is calmly regarded as the passage of the four seasons. Even if the south is king, it is impossible to surpass it. "
Zhuangzi didn't believe me, and said, "I ask the God in charge of life to restore your body, regenerate your flesh and blood, return your parents, wife and children, and return your neighbors and friends. Do you want this? " Skeleton frowned and said with deep concern, "How can I abandon the joy of being king in the south and experience the hard work of the world again?"
This article is from Zhuangzi's "The Tale of Zhuangzi" during the Warring States Period.
Extended data writing background:
Zhuangzi is of great philosophical and literary research value. Mr. Lu Xun once said, "His writing style is Wang Yang's, and his manners are all square. The works of the late Zhou philosophers are not the first. " Famous articles (Outline of the History of Chinese Literature) include Free Travel, Theory of Everything, Master of Health, etc. And "My Clever Understanding of Cattle" in "Master of Health" is especially popular in later generations.
Sima Qian introduced Zhuangzi's life in Historical Records with concise words, but did not mention Zhuangzi's words. The word Hugh was put forward in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that he wrote hundreds of thousands of words to identify Laozi's thoughts.
The structure of Zhuangzi's article is very strange. It doesn't look tight, but it often comes suddenly. You can do whatever you want and stop whenever you want. Wang Yang is reckless and changeable, sometimes seemingly irrelevant, jumping up and down at will, but his thoughts can run through.
Sentences are also rich and varied, whether they are smooth or inverted, long or short, with richer vocabulary, detailed description, irregular rhymes and great expressiveness and originality.
About the author:
Zhuangzi (about 369-286 BC), whose name was Zhou, was Zixiu (Tan), and was later called "South China Real Person". During the Warring States Period, Song Guomeng (now Mengcheng County, Anhui Province, now Minquan County, Northeast of Shangqiu County, Henan Province) was born.
A famous thinker, philosopher and writer, a representative of the Taoist school, the inheritor and developer of Laozi's philosophical thoughts, the founder of the pre-Qin (Taoist) Zhuangzi school, and the author of Zhuangzi (also known as the South China Classic and the South China True Classic, written by believers in Zhuangzi's later period).
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".