From "Zhuangzi refers to the North Tour".
Author: Zhuangzi (369-286 BC), 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. Famous thinker, philosopher, writer, representative of Taoist school, inheritor and developer of Laozi's philosophical thought, master of ancient Taoist school in China, 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".
Introduction to the work:
Zhuangzi is divided into three parts: internal, external and miscellaneous. The first fifty-two articles were gradually spread, mixed and benefited in the middle and late Warring States period, and took shape at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty. However, what was circulated at that time has been lost today. At present, there are 33 articles compiled by Guo Xiang, and the titles and chapters are also different from those of the Han Dynasty. Generally speaking, the inner chapter can represent the core of Zhuangzi Thought in the Warring States Period, while the outer chapter and miscellaneous articles have developed for more than one hundred years, and Huang Lao and Zhuangzi's post-school studies have formed a complex system. Sima Qian thought that Zhuangzi thought "belongs to Laozi". However, as far as the fables, theories and world articles in Zhuangzi are concerned about Laozi's thought, Laozi and Zhuangzi have different ideological frameworks and different concerns. The so-called ideological system of "Tao" and the book Zhuangzi were actually mixed and stirred for a long time, and were compiled by scholars in the Han Dynasty.