Original text:
To the north of Qianfa there is the Nether Sea, which is called Tianchi. There is Yuyan, which is thousands of miles wide. No one knows how to cultivate it, and its name is Kun. There is a bird, its name is Peng, its back is like Mount Tai, and its wings are like clouds hanging from the sky. It flies up ninety thousand miles with a ram's horn, cuts off the clouds, carries the blue sky, and then goes to the south, and is suitable for the south. It laughs at it. Said: "He is so ridiculous that he is not suitable? I leap up, but only a few feet down, soaring among the basils, this is what I am flying to. And he is so ridiculous!
Translation:
p>Kun is a big fish, as big as thousands of miles. Peng is a big bird, also as big as thousands of miles. He can't understand, because "you are only a few meters high when you jump", you are simply Nonsense. Zhuangzi used this fable to express that "a person's vision is limited by his own ability, and the reason why he cannot understand others is that he is not good enough."
The author Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi (the main representative of the Taoist school):
Zhuangzi, whose surname is Zhuang, whose given name is Zhou, and whose courtesy name is Zixiu (also known as Zimu), was a Mongolian native of the Song Dynasty. His ancestor was Song Daigong, the monarch of the Song Dynasty. He was a famous man in the middle of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period. Thinker, philosopher and writer. He founded Zhuang Xue, an important philosophical school in China. After Laozi, he was a representative of the Taoist school during the Warring States Period and one of the main representatives of the Taoist school.
Zhuang Xue. Because he advocated freedom, Zhou refused to be hired by King Wei of Chu. He only served as a local Qiyuan official in Song Dynasty. "Thoughts have a profound influence on Confucianism. Zhuangzi has an insight into the theory of changes, and profoundly pointed out that "The Book of Changes talks about yin and yang"; Zhuangzi's "three sounds" thought is consistent with the three talents in the Book of Changes. His representative work is "Zhuangzi", in which Famous works include "Xiaoyaoyou", "Qiwu Lun", etc. He is as famous as Laozi and is known as Laozi and Zhuangzi.
Zhuangzi has a rich imagination, can use language freely and is flexible, and can put some things into words. The subtle and unspeakable philosophy is fascinating. His works are called "the philosophy of literature, the literature of philosophy". It is said that he lived in seclusion in Nanhua Mountain, so Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty decreed that Zhuang Zhou be named Nanhua Zhenren. His book "Zhuangzi" is "Nanhua Zhenjing".