From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhuangzi, a thinker, wrote Free Travel.
Excerpts are as follows:
I don't know the future, I don't know the spring and autumn. There are ghosts in southern Chu, five hundred years old is spring, and five hundred years old is autumn; In ancient times, there was a big tree, eight thousand years old was spring, and eight thousand years old was autumn. This is also a big year. Peng Zu has a long-standing reputation, and everyone is a horse. Aren't you sad?
The translation is as follows:
Fungi in ephemera do not know night and dawn. Spring begets summer and dies, and summer begets autumn and dies. I don't know a year. This is short-lived. There is a big tree in southern Chu called Gui Ling, which regards 500 years as a spring and 500 years as an autumn.
In ancient times, there was a tree called Toona sinensis, which regarded 8,000 years as a spring and 8,000 years as an autumn. This is longevity. But Peng Zu is still famous for its longevity. Isn't it sad to be compared with him?
Extended data:
Creation background
Zhuangzi was brilliant, intelligent and diligent, and "learned everything". He is not born useless. However, "today, the world is also confused. Although I have a prayer, I can't get it. " On the one hand, the corrupt society that "those who steal hooks will be punished and those who steal countries will be punished" makes him disdain to associate with them; On the other hand, the reality of "princes can't do it" makes him unable to show his ambition.
Since the world is so filthy and he can't talk to Zhuang, his soul seeking freedom has to soar in the fantasy world and seek liberation in the realm of absolute freedom. It is in this situation that he wrote the song "Happy Travel", which is the pursuit of suppressing the soul.
works appreciation
The main content of Zhuangzi's carefree travel thought is to achieve the spiritual realm of "doing something" and "doing everything". Zhuangzi used many fables to express the connotation of carefree travel in "Happy Travel", exposing the secular "should be" performance. First of all, Zhuangzi pointed out that big ships can only sail by the depth of accumulated water, while Dapeng can only soar by "repairing the wind", so they are all "waiting for others".
For another example, Zhuangzi thinks that Song's thought still stays in the realm of "deciding inside and outside, debating honor and disgrace", and has not completely surpassed the dispute between "deciding inside and outside" and "debating honor and disgrace", but is indifferent to this debate, so it is not a real "thinks lightly". Zhuangzi criticized the secular waiting, put forward the ideal realm of pursuing waiting, and also pointed out the specific ways from waiting to waiting.
In Zhuangzi's view, only by reaching the realm of "no self", "inaction" and "nameless" can we get rid of all foreign things and experience the real carefree travel from "waiting" to "waiting".
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