The original text of Zhuangzi Zhile
When Zhuangzi's wife died, Keiko hung and Zhuangzi sang in the drum basin. Keiko said, "It is enough for the eldest son to live in harmony and grow old together. It's not bad to die without crying. Singing with drums and pots is also great! " Zhuangzi said, "Otherwise. There is no life in the beginning, no life in the disciples, no life in the disciples and no life in the disciples. Between the headstrong and the sudden, it turns into gas, into shape, into life, and now into death, spring, summer, autumn and winter. People were lying in a huge room, and I cried with it, thinking that I couldn't live any longer, so I stopped. "
Vernacular translation
When Zhuangzi's wife died, Zhuangzi didn't cry, but sang. Keiko doesn't think so. Zhuangzi said, "My wife, judging from it, was lifeless at first. Not only is there no life, but there is no body. Not only is there no body, but there are no signs of climate produced by the body. In the confusion and confusion, it gradually led to the climate sign of the form, and then there was the form, then there was life, and then there was the present death.
Life and death are just like the alternation of spring, summer, autumn and winter. When I think about it, my wife is not my wife. Not only is she not my wife, but I don't own myself. Now that my wife is dead, she has quietly returned to the initial state of confusion and confusion, lying in the big house of everything in the world, like autumn leaving winter and waiting for spring to come again. But I cried behind her. I thought I didn't understand the truth, so I stopped crying. "
Life and death come and go, just like the change of four seasons. Life is not gain, death is not loss. Life is not more meaningful than death. On the contrary, death is easier to return to all things, renew and recreate than life, so it is closer to the Tao and more arbitrarily entrusted by the Tao. Doing nothing, life is the backbone, death is the tail, and life and death are one, which is the so-called "life and death are one."
Zhuangzi (about 369-286 BC), a philosopher in the mid-Warring States period, was born in Zhuang's family, Zhou's name, Zi Xiu (Zuo), Han nationality, and Meng (now Mengcheng, Anhui, also known as Shangqiu, Henan and Dongming, Shandong). He was a great thinker, philosopher and writer in the pre-Qin period of China.
Zhuangzi was originally a descendant of Chu Zhuangwang and the main founder of Taoism. Together with Laozi, the ancestor of Taoism, they are called "Laozi and Zhuangzi", and their philosophical thoughts are respected as "Laozi and Zhuangzi's philosophy" by the ideological and academic circles, but their literary talent is better than Laozi's. Zhuangzi is a masterpiece, and people have interpreted it in many versions, including A Happy Journey and The Theory of Everything. Zhuangzi advocated "harmony between man and nature" and "governing by doing nothing".
Zhuangzi's imagination is extremely rich, his language is freely used and flexible, and he can make some subtle and unspeakable philosophies fascinating. His works are called "literary philosophy, philosophical literature". It is said that he lived in seclusion in Nanhua Mountain, so at the beginning of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he named Zhuang Zhou as the South China Reality and his book Zhuangzi as the South China True Classic.