Zhuangzi's famous domineering saying, only eight words, is familiar to everyone, but few people know that it comes from Zhuangzi, that is, those who follow me prosper, those who oppose me perish.

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Zhuangzi (about 369 BC-about 286 BC), named Zhou, was born in Song Guomeng (the mainstream view is now the northeast of Shangqiu, Henan) during the Warring States Period. Thinker, philosopher, writer and representative of Taoist school in the mid-Warring States period were also called "Laozi and Zhuangzi".

Zhuangzi shouldn't be hired by Chu Weiwang because he advocated freedom. He only served as a lacquered garden official in Song Dynasty, and was known as a "proud lacquered garden official" in history, and was praised as a model of local officials. His earliest thought of "sage inside and king outside" had a far-reaching influence on Confucianism.

He has a deep insight into the principles of the Book of Changes, and points out that "The Book of Changes takes the Tao of Yin and Yang", and his "three sounds" thought is consistent with the Tao of three talents in the Book of Changes. His literary imagination is rich and peculiar, his language is freely used, and he is flexible and changeable, and he can write subtle and unspeakable philosophies fascinating, which is called "the philosophy of literature, the literature of philosophy".

His works are included in the book Zhuangzi, and his representative works include Wandering around, On Everything, Health-preserving Master, etc. It is said that Zhuangzi tried to live in seclusion in South Huashan, and was buried there. Therefore, at the beginning of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was named as a South China real person, and the book Zhuangzi was also regarded as the South China True Classic.

"Tao" is the core of Zhuangzi's transcendental philosophy, "Xin Zhai" and "Sitting and Forgetting" are the ideal means to achieve transcendence, "Wandering freely" is the best realm of life freedom, and "Everything is unified" is the inevitable world outlook for pursuing life freedom.