Liezi devoted his life to moral study, and studied under Guan Yinzi, Hu Qiuzi, Lao Shang and Zhi Bo Gaozi. He lived in seclusion for forty years in Zheng, without seeking fame and fortune, and silently practiced Buddhism. Advocate accountability and responsibility, and do nothing. He wrote 20 books, more than100000 words. There are eight books today, including Tian Rui, Zhong Ni, Tang Wen, Yang Zhu, Fu Shuo, Huangdi, Zhou Muwang and Mo Lifeng. They are all lost. Among them, there are more than a hundred fables, such as The Yellow Emperor Roaming, Yu Gong Yi Shan, Kuafu Chasing the Sun, and Worrying about the Worries, which are interesting, meaningful and thought-provoking. Later, it was honored by Taoism as "a real person who rushed into the air."
Liezi is open-minded, rich and poor, and is not surprised by honor or disgrace. Because my family is poor, I often don't have enough to eat, and my face is pale and thin. Someone advised Zheng Guojunziyang to subsidize Liezi in order to win the name of a good scholar, so Ziyang sent someone to send him ten carts of grain. He thanked him again and again, but refused to accept the real thing. Wife complains: I have long heard that people with good ideas, their wives and children can live happily, but now they often go hungry. The Prime Minister sent you food, but you didn't accept it. I am really unlucky. Liezi smiled and said to his wife, Ziyang doesn't really know me. He didn't bring me food until he listened to others. I may listen to others in the future. Blame me me, I can't accept it. A year later, Zheng had an accident, Ziyang was killed, and many of his henchmen were collectively killed, leaving the bandits in the imperial court safe and sound. Such a legacy is still circulating among Zhengzhou people, and this story is also recorded in the Annals of Zhengzhou in the thirty-second year of Kangxi.
Liezi attached great importance to Shogen, cultivated the technique of wind protection, and was able to keep out the wind. He often goes to the Eight Barrens in spring. In Zhuangzi's Happy Travel, Liezi described the scene of riding the wind. "Ling Ran is good. I will be back in ten days and five days." Wherever he is popular, he will come back to life. Flying, carefree, relaxed and complacent, enviable. In the first year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (742), Li Longji named him Xu Chong, whose book was Xu Chongzhen Mirror.
Zhuangzi mentioned that Liezi could "go against the wind and be good at Ling Ran" in the first article of his book "Happy Travel". It seems that he has already developed extraordinary flying skills. Because Zhuangzi's books often make up fictional characters, such as "nobody" and "Tiangen", some people suspect that Liezi is also a "dummy". However, Liezi is also mentioned in many documents, such as Warring States Policy, Dead Body, Lv Chunqiu and so on. These books are serious books, unlike Zhuangzi, who likes to make up stories. So Liezi should be a real person. On Liezi's theory, Liu Xiang thought: "His learning originated from Huangdi Laozi and posthumous title Taoism. The Taoist must stick to the basics, empty the inaction, treat things, respect them without arguing, and conform to the Six Classics. " The "book" in Xing Bing's "Er Ya Shi Shu" refers to the broad principles of the corpse, and Lu's "Spring and Autumn Annals" says: "The son is fierce and the son is expensive." "The warring states policy. "Han Ce" has: "Historical illness makes Chu, and the king of Chu asked,' What does the guest do?' Say:' The words of treating the troubles of Liezi. Say,' What's expensive? Say:' reform'. Liezi by Zhang Zhan. Preface "thinks:" The book is generally clear, and there are even loopholes, and all kinds of products are finally extinct. God prefers to be calm, miss taking things as the table, feel and turn dreams into feelings. The size is not limited to one domain, and poverty has no false wisdom. Governing the body is more expensive than being an official, and it applies to everything. If you forget, there will be no seclusion, which is also the purpose. "
Liezi believes that "if a person's heart is a mirror, he should not welcome it, but should not hide it, so he can get something without hurting it." He often looks hungry because of poverty, but refuses food from Ziyang, the tyrannical ruler of Zheng State. His disciple asked shyly, "Are those who know the Tao rich?" Liezi said, "I despise Taoism and value profit to death!" " "Liezi also advocates that we should get rid of the fetters of nobility and fame and fortune in the world, conform to the avenue, be indifferent to fame and fortune, and practice meditation.
There are many educational works in pre-Qin fables and myths and legends in Liezi. For example, three stories of Liezi Society (Liezi Fu Shuo), Ji Chang Society (Liezi Tang Wen) and Xue Tan Academy (Liezi Tang Wen) tell us that in learning, we should not only know what it is, but also know why; Real skills come from hard study and hard practice; There is no end to knowledge and skills, and you can't be satisfied with learning only a little. For another example, Inheriting the Legacy (Liezi Huangdi) tells us that Qu Bei's amazing skill in catching cicadas stems from his diligent study and practice; There is even more bizarre plot of "a wife doesn't know her husband" (Liezi Tang Wen), which shows that a person can change his mind.
Liezi's learning originated from Huangdi and Laozi. According to legend, he once asked Guan Yinzi to worship Hu Qiuzi as a teacher, and later studied the old merchants and Zhi Bo Gaozi successively, and got their true stories, but Youbo was unconscious. After nine years of monasticism, he can walk against the wind. It is said in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio that Liezi often rides the wind to the Eight Wastes in early spring and returns to the "wind cave" in early autumn. When the wind comes, everything grows. When he goes, everything grows. "Lu Chunqiu" said: "Zi Liezi is expensive." He believes that "if a man's heart is a mirror, he should not welcome it, but should not hide it, so he can get something without hurting it." Liezi was poor and hungry, but refused the food given by Ziyang, the tyrannical ruler of Zheng State. His disciple Yan Hui asked him, "Are those who know the Tao rich?" Liezi said, "I only despise the Tao and pay attention to the profit!" " "He believes that we should get rid of the fetters of dignity and fame and fortune in the world, conform to the avenue, be indifferent to fame and fortune, and practice meditation.