There are no tiles on it to cover the body, and there is no place on the cone below. This chapter comes from Zhuangzi's Happy Travel. This article tells that a person can achieve spiritual comfort and freedom through inner peace and freedom, in which "there is no roof on the body and no place on the cone" is an exaggerated way to express that people can transcend the bondage of material life in the process of pursuing inner freedom.
Specifically, the phrase "there is no roof above, and there is no place to live below" can be understood as: mentally, one can transcend the constraints of material conditions such as residence and home and realize inner freedom and comfort. It emphasizes that people should first pursue the freedom and comfort of their inner world, instead of pinning happiness on material wealth and external conditions.
In a word, "There is no place for a cone without tiles" is a reflection of Zhuangzi's thought of pursuing inner freedom and transcending material bondage, and it has also become a famous saying widely used later.
The history of this land has no tiles at the top and a cone at the bottom.
In ancient society, land and houses were the basis of people's lives, and owning houses and land meant stability and security. When a person loses his residence and property, he will face the dilemma of homelessness and nowhere to live. The idiom "there is no roof above, and there is no place on the cone below" expresses this dilemma through the image of extreme poverty.
This idiom can be traced back to the ancient literary work "Zhuangzi Wandering", which is Zhuangzi's masterpiece and talks about the inner freedom. Among them, "there is nowhere to cover the body with tiles and nowhere to stand under the cone" is used to exaggerate the state in which a person loses all material wealth, shelter and shelter.
With the passage of time, this idiom has gradually been widely used to describe the situation that life is in trouble, poverty or helplessness. The historical origin of this idiom is not clear, but it reflects the reality of poverty and homelessness in ancient society and the pursuit of inner freedom and comfort in Zhuangzi's "Happy Travel".