The fungus of ephemera doesn't know night and dawn, and it will be short-lived if it doesn't know a year.
From: "Have a nice trip"
Author: Zhuang Zhou in Pre-Qin Dynasty
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This article skillfully uses fables, and its writing style is changeable and full of romanticism. Zhuangzi advocates inaction to support the future. His explanation of the size, dignity, longevity, right and wrong, gain and loss, honor and disgrace of the world is relativism. His attitude towards society and life, whether negative or enlightened, has had a far-reaching impact on later generations.
He hates the society in which "those who steal the hook punish those who steal the country", refuses to cooperate with the rulers, despises wealth and denies the existence of ghosts and gods, all of which are positive and worthy of recognition. However, his delusion of escaping from reality and pursuing unconditional spiritual freedom was a negative and impossible absolute subjective idealism view at that time and now.