When Zhuangzi's wife died, Zhuangzi lost her partner who lived alone, and her relatives were in grief. The living only sang Long song, crying to comfort the children and singing. Song said, "Life and death are fixed, and the shape of qi is changing. Heaven and earth are like giant rooms, crying for great harmony. " Later, Zhuangzi felt that he really wanted to swim with the Creator, and his mood was very calm.
Fifty-two lost articles in the ancient version of Zhuangzi said: Zhuang Zhou was sick, and his disciples mourned it. Won said, "if I die today, who will die first?" Over a hundred years old, who will be the queen? If you can't get rid of it first, why be greedy for a moment? "
Zhuangzi's behavior seems absurd, but if we link his thoughts with our modern daily life, we will find that Zhuangzi's view of life and death is also a good way to relieve our emotions when the modern pressure is too great. The key to the cycle of life and death lies in whether we can treat life and death calmly. We should be born with happiness and live every minute. When death comes, we should also face it calmly and affirm our lives.
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In the real records, Zhuangzi and his wife have deep feelings, and Zhuang's wife is also very virtuous, which is the only one mentioned in Zhuangzi: Zhuangzi's wife died, Keiko hanged, and Zhuangzi sang in the drum basin.
After Zhuangzi's wife died, his good friend Keiko went to offer condolences and found Zhuangzi singing in a drum basin. He was very angry and asked, "Your wife has been with you all her life, giving birth to your children and doing housework. You just don't cry. How can I still sing? " Zhuangzi replied, "It's not what you think. How can I not be sad when she just died? "
However, I thought about it carefully. Before she was born, she had no life, no body, no breathing and was in chaos. Because there is change, there is breath, there is breath, there is body, and there is change in the body to have life. Now, she's changed and dead. This kind of life and death is exactly equivalent to the changes in spring, summer, autumn and winter!
Now, my wife is still in the huge room between heaven and earth. If I cry for her, I think it is impossible for heaven and earth, so I won't cry! "Zhuangzi is not ignorant of manners and accidents, but he pursues the Tao between heaven and earth. He believes that each of us is in heaven, and life and death are just normal changes. We don't have to be happy because of life or sad because of death. We're just following God's will.
It seems unreasonable to sing at his wife's funeral. In fact, Zhuangzi is explaining his view of life and death in his own way. The dead just adapt to nature and change other things, and the living will continue to live and sing.
Compared with the traditional Confucianism, Zhuangzi was a bit shocking when he expounded his philosophy of life and death, but Zhuangzi's philosophy of life and death was closer to nature and farther away than the soul of Confucianism. Life is just a process from inanimate state to inanimate state, from inanimate state to animate state, from animate state to inanimate and intangible state, from intangible state to tangible state. Life and death are dialectical.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Drum Basin and Song Dynasty