The article "Autumn Water" is intended to show that everything in the world is relative, temporary and unpredictable. Zhuangzi used this article to promote his relativism and agnosticism. Although there are dialectical factors in this way of understanding things, it belongs to the subjective idealism system and is not desirable. When Zhuangzi expressed his thoughts, he seldom made abstract summaries or theoretical logical arguments. He likes to use fables to explain the truth and put philosophy in the image. People's understanding of fables often goes beyond Zhuangzi's own writing intention. The excerpt of the text is the opening paragraph of the full text of Qiushui. The author originally described Hebo's magnificent and smug story of seeing the Yellow River, but after seeing the North Sea, he lamented that the size of things was relative. However, as an independent fable, it brings us multiple inspirations, such as:

Don't stick to your own opinions and stand still;

(2) Maintain the virtue of modesty, which benefits and is full of losses;

3 people are self-aware;

(4) Only comparison can distinguish;

5 shy, almost brave;

6 stand tall and see far;

7 arrogance is due to ignorance;

Only by constantly surpassing ourselves can we develop;

Pet-name ruby to have a broad mind and lofty aspirations;

Attending personal knowledge is limited, to understand that there are mountains outside the mountain, there are days behind, to study hard and make continuous progress;

Looking at this story alone, we can get the following enlightenment: everything has its objective laws. As long as we practice repeatedly and accumulate experience, we can know and master the laws of things like experts, so as to be "comfortable"; His famous saying "My life is limited, but my knowledge is limited" has been inspiring people to study against time for thousands of years and master as much knowledge as possible in a limited life. In fact, the back of this sentence is "with the limit, it is almost impossible; It's only a matter of time before you know what you know. " Linking the whole sentence is: "human life is limited, but the ocean of knowledge is boundless." It is dangerous to pursue infinite knowledge with their limited lives. In this case, it is even more dangerous to continue to pursue. " It turns out that what he meant was to tell people not to pursue knowledge, which is just the opposite of our understanding.