The moral of "The Death of Zhuangzi's Wife" is to express optimism about life and death, and also to express the sadness of losing his wife.
Original text:
When Zhuangzi’s wife died, Huizi hung her up, while Zhuangzi sat on a drum and basin with a square pan and sang. Huizi said: "Living with others, the eldest son is old, it is enough that he dies without crying, and he drums in a pot and sings, that's not what it is!" Zhuangzi said: "No. This is the beginning of death. How can I alone be unreasonable!" Look at the beginning, it is originally unborn, it is not just inanimate, but it is originally formless, it is not just intangible, but it is originally airless. It is mixed between the awns, it changes and becomes qi, the qi changes and it becomes tangible, it changes and it has life, and now it changes and it becomes. The death is in harmony with the four seasons of spring, autumn, winter and summer. People are sleeping in a huge room, and I am wailing and crying, thinking that it is not my destiny, so I stop."
"Bliss" means the greatest happiness. What is the greatest happiness in life? How should people treat life and death? The content of this article is to discuss and answer such questions.
The full text is naturally divided into seven parts. The first part ends with "How can man achieve inaction?" After five consecutive questions, he lists and criticizes the world's views on suffering and happiness one by one, pointing out that there has never been any real happiness, and the so-called "bliss" is also "nothing." happy". The second part ends with "Gu Zhi Ye", which tells the story of Zhuangzi's wife singing in the basin when she died. It uses Zhuangzi's words to point out that human life and death are the gathering and dispersion of Qi, just like the change of four seasons. The third part goes to "How can I be evil?" It points out that "life and death are like day and night" and people can only adapt to this natural change. The fourth part goes to "Return to the labor of the world", using the mouth of the skull to write about the fatigue and labor of life in this world. The fifth part, "This is what we call order and blessing," tells a fable from the mouth of Confucius, pointing out that man-made imposition can only cause disaster, and everything must be left to its own devices. The sixth part goes to "The fruit is joyful", which points out that neither life nor death is enough for sorrow and joy. The remaining part is the seventh part, which describes the evolution of species. This evolution process is of course unscientific and unfounded. Its purpose is to explain that everything comes from "machine" and returns to "machine", and humans are no exception; thus, Echoing the first paragraph, there is no such thing as "bliss" in life, and human death and life are just natural changes.