Statue of Zhuangzi
I worked as a lacquer garden official in the Song Dynasty, and I was probably more arrogant when I was an official. Later, because of my academic reputation, I was called an example of being an official. I like to travel around the world, study the cultural classics of many countries and learn the advantages of various schools. However, he hated feudalism and was unwilling to work for such a monarch. He was invited by Chu Weiwang for his extraordinary talent. Zhuangzi used a metaphor to exclude the king of Chu. He believes that high officials and generous officials demand people to be loyal to the court, just like treating a fattened cow, dressing it with brilliant flowers and sending it to the ancestral temple for sacrifice.
Zhuangzi hated the reality of fame and fortune and decided to live in seclusion. He devoted himself to writing and collected many disciples to spread his Taoist thoughts.
The essence of Zhuangzi's thought is inaction, advocating nature and opposing man-made. Different from advocating benevolence and righteousness, he advocates the unity of man and nature and has simple dialectical thought. Zhuangzi thought was appraised by later generations as the earliest bud of human utopia.
Zhuangzi's achievements mainly include his article Zhuangzi, which consists of three parts, one is Zhuangzi's original thought, and the other is the external interpretation of Laozi's thought. Zhuangzi himself agreed with Laozi's Taoist thought, which provided the same theoretical basis for their thoughts. The third part is a mixture of Zhuangzi Thought and other theoretical systems, including the famous Autumn Water and many fables.
Zhuangzi's achievement also lies in his literary creation. He is good at using natural things to compare the real society. His writing is fantastic and magnificent, and his words and sentences all show his superb literary attainments.
Zhuangzi's Evaluation of Mozi
Mozi was a very famous thinker in ancient China, and many of his thoughts advocated benevolence. Don't influence future generations with luxury, don't waste everything, don't show off manners, and use your former residence to encourage yourself to cope with social difficulties. Zhuangzi thinks that Mozi's ideological intention is desirable, but he firmly disagrees with Mozi's thought of "love without attack", and thinks that we must be harmonious but different, and we must be eager to learn, and we must not eat, drink or lose when we are alive.
Statue of Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi believes that if a person's emotions can't be expressed normally, it is against human nature and is not desirable. Secondly, Zhuangzi thinks that Mozi said that people should work hard before they die, and don't have a grand burial after they die. This is not only extremely difficult to achieve, but also violates the way of life of the people all over the world, which is unacceptable to them. Even if Mozi can do it himself, he is helpless to others. Breaking away from the world is inconsistent with the kingly way that Mozi has always advocated. Third, the people behind him disapprove of Mozi's excessive self-suffering.
But Zhuangzi affirmed Mozi's talent and love for the world. In The World, Zhuangzi commented: Mozi really cares about the world. Even though he is poor, he still won't give up his idea. This is the real man of insight.
Zhuangzi believes that Mozi's spirit of caring for the world and being hard-working is noble if he only restrains his own behavior, but it is not advisable for Mozi to apply it to everyone, because everyone has his own pursuit and cannot impose ideas that do not belong to him.
Quotations from Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi was a thinker and philosopher in the Warring States Period. Zhuangzi was down and out all his life. If he is famous for his official career, he is at best a manager of a paint garden. His achievements are famous for his ideological realm. He devoted his life to research and writing, especially to Lao Tzu's thought. The thoughts endowed by Zhuangzi's words are inspiring and make people read as if their hearts have been purified, and the disputes in the world are like clouds.
Statue of Zhuangzi
People spontaneously recite and feel the essence of his thoughts and memorize all the concise and philosophical sentences in his works. These famous sayings and sentences are not only praised and recited by later monarchs, but also always reflect the career of scholars studying the sea in modern times with their brilliant wisdom.
There are many famous sayings of Zhuangzi, among which the following are widely circulated. If we encourage learning, our life is limited and our knowledge is limited. This sentence says that human life has an end, but knowledge never ends. In fact, as long as we are willing to study hard, we will never finish learning. We should study hard in our lifetime to make our life meaningful. The core of various explanations is to recognize and encourage people to learn more knowledge.
As for my career, my husband's water is not thick enough to bear a big ship. Ships can only sail when the water is deep. It refers to doing great things, we must lay a good foundation, and only with the foundation can we find a career. Isn't it actually an encouragement to ancient kings? I hope that the King can govern the country diligently, enrich the people and strengthen the country, so as to dominate the quartet. If he wants to rule this country from above, he must have a very firm and United support force.
Great wisdom makes famous sayings, remembers sentences, and more importantly, can tailor and cultivate one's own mind.
Zhuangzi Tianzifang
This is also Zhuangzi's article, but it is more like miscellaneous notes. Think about Zhuangzi in troubled times, refused the invitation of a king, and resolutely devoted himself to nature to engage in literary creation. How can he not produce some works? A person sitting there thinking, of course, to write and draw, this article is probably written when there are differences in Zhuangzi's thoughts. Because the whole article is divided into eleven parts, with different lengths and no connection.
Portrait of Zhuangzi
The name of this article is Tian Zifang, the name of the first part. This man is a good friend of Wei Wenhou. Because of his extensive knowledge among governors, Wei Wenhou specially invited him to be a teacher.
The content of the first part is to express Zhuangzi's attitude towards the pursuit of truth in Dong Guo Shunzi through the dialogue between Tian Zifang and Wei Wenhou. In the second part, of course, we should praise our attitude of inaction. The third part is the dialogue between Confucius and his disciples, discussing the difference between "mental death" and "physical death". The fourth part uses the image of Lao Dan to express his views again. The fifth part is a fable story, discussing the relationship between "truth" and "form". The sixth part is advanced in content, but it also conforms to Taoist thought. Wealth, life and death are all foreign things. The seventh part is about flowers. The eighth part is about Zang Zhangren, who also governs by doing nothing. The ninth part is about the importance of loneliness and concentration. The tenth part describes Sun Shuaiao's lofty. The eleventh part is about the king's indifference to the survival of the country. Is this really a competent monarch?
Although Zhuangzi's works are not related to each other, they are all Taoist thoughts from beginning to end. But it is even harder for the world to really do this.