"Summer insects can't talk to ice, and well frogs can't talk to the sea. I don't know when the fungus will come, I don't know the spring and autumn. " What do you mean?

It means: insects in summer, because of the limitation of life time, can't talk about freezing with them; Frogs in the well can't talk about the sea with them because of the limitation of living space; Auricularia died on the eve of birthday, so I don't know the beginning (new moon) and end (dark) of the lunar calendar. I didn't know there would be spring and autumn, because I couldn't live through winter. Life is short is the truth, we should realize the value of life in time and pursue the highest realm of life.

From Zhuangzi's "Happy Travel"

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Firstly, this paper expounds the difference between "small" and "big" by comparing Dapeng with small animals such as pheasants and pigeons. On this basis, the author points out that both Zhu and Xue, pigeons who are not good at Yu Feixiang, Dapeng who can fly to Wan Li by the wind, and even Liezi who can ride against the wind.

They are all "waiting for something" but not free, which leads to and expounds the truth that "the other has nothing, the god is useless, and the saint is nameless" Finally, through the argument between Keiko and Zhuangzi about "usefulness" and "uselessness", it is shown that only by not being used by the world can we be "carefree". The full text is rich in imagination, novel in conception, magnificent and grotesque, with Wang Yang's wanton and romantic spirit between the lines.

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 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. These are: "No one has himself", "God is useless" and "Saint is nameless".

The "Supreme Man", "God Man" and "Sage" here are the embodiment and combination of "Tao" and ideal personality advocated by Zhuangzi. 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".

References:

Xiaoyao Tour (Zhuangzi's Works) _ Baidu Encyclopedia