Source: Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour
Excerpt from the original text: Therefore, nine Wan Li, then the wind is down, then the wind breeds today; Those who carry the blue sky but don't die, then they will go to the south today.
Therefore, Peng flew at an altitude of 90,000 miles, and the wind was smooth. With the help of the wind, he carried the blue sky unimpeded, and then he began to fly south.
Explanation: Then the wind came down: the wind was just below Dapeng (meaning the wind was as deep as Wan Li). Then today: the inverted sentence of "Today and then". It is equivalent to "at this time ... and then". Peifeng: Take the wind. Pei, by. Yao (yāo): Depressed. Terbium (è): blocking. Tunan: Plotting to fly south.
Extended data:
Working background:
Xiaoyao Tour is the representative work of Zhuang Zhou, a philosopher and writer in the Warring States Period. It is listed as the first article in Zhuangzi, a Taoist classic, and it can be regarded as the masterpiece of Zhuangzi both ideologically and artistically.
Appreciate:
The theme of this article is to pursue an absolutely free outlook on life. The author believes that only by forgetting the boundary between things and me, reaching the realm of no-self, inaction and namelessness, and swimming in infinity without any foundation, can we truly "roam freely".
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 Fu and Xue pigeons who are not good at Yu Feixiang, Dapeng who can fly high in Wan Li by the wind, and Liezi who can walk against the wind are "waiting" but not free.