Original: The well frog can't talk to the people in the sea, but is confined to the air; Summer insects can't talk to ice or time; Qu's family can't talk to Taoists, but can only be tied to religion.
Source: Pre-Qin Zhuangzi and his disciple Qiu Shui (excerpt)
Interpretation: Don't talk to the frog at the bottom of the well about the sea, because its vision is limited by its narrow residence; Don't talk about ice with insects in summer, because it is limited by seasons; You can't reason with a country musician with a shallow knowledge, because he is bound by ethics.
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Appreciation of Works: Autumn Water is another novel in Zhuangzi. The first two words are the titles, and the center is to discuss how people should know foreign things.
Emphasize the complexity of understanding things, that is, the relativity of things themselves and the variability of cognitive processes, and point out the difficulty of cognition and accurate judgment. However, the article overemphasizes the uncertain factors of things, fails to reveal the dialectical relationship between relativity and absoluteness in the process of cognition, and easily leads to agnosticism, so it can only adapt to things and return to inaction, which is of course negative.
Introduction: Zhuangzi's articles are rich in imagination, changeable in writing style, full of romanticism, humorous and satirical in the form of fable, which has a great influence on the literary language of later generations. His extraordinary imagination and unpredictable fables constitute Zhuangzi's unique and peculiar imaginary world. "Beyond the dust, strange things happen."
Zhuang Zhou wrote Zhuangzi (regarded as a southern classic by Taoism), which is one of the Taoist classics. There are 52 Zhuangzi articles recorded in the Records of Han Shu Literature and Art, and only 33 exist. Zhuangzi is of great philosophical and literary research value. Mr. Lu Xun once said, "His writing style is Wang Yang's, and his manners are all square. The works of the late Zhou philosophers should not be the first. "
Famous articles include Happy Travel, Zhuangzi's Autumn Water, On Wuqi, Master of Health, etc. Among them, "My Clever Understanding of Cattle" is especially popular with later generations.
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