Zhuangzi (about 369 BC-286 BC), born in the eastern suburb of Mengcheng County (now Dongcheng Road, Chengguan Town), was a famous thinker and writer during the Warring States Period. Zhuangzi wrote more than 100,000 words in his life, entitled "Zhuangzi". The appearance of this document indicates that in the Warring States period, China's philosophical thinking and literary language have developed to non-; Deep level is a treasure in China's ancient books. Therefore, Zhuangzi is not only a famous thinker in the history of China philosophy, but also an outstanding writer in the history of China literature. No matter in philosophy or literary language, he had a far-reaching and great influence on China thinkers and writers, and played a very important role in China's ideological official and literary history. Zhuangzi worked as a small official in Mengcheng Lacquer Garden (now the former site of Lacquer Garden on the north bank of the Wohe River in Shangjun County), but he resigned soon. He lives in a humble alley and writes books. When life was hard to maintain, I borrowed food from Hou Jianhe. Chu Weiwang heard that Zhuang Zhou of China was a learned and moral man, so he sent messengers to the Lacquer Garden (Mengcheng) to prepare gifts for his daughter, and asked Zhuangzi to be the prime minister of Chu. After the emissary made it clear that the king of Chu thought that the phase was the will, Zhuangzi smiled and said to the envoy of Chu, "A thousand dollars is a heavy gift, and the phase is the highest. However, didn't you see the cows during the sacrifice? People fattened the cows and wore red clothes when they sacrificed. Didn't they take them to the ancestral temple and kill them as sacrifices? I would rather live in indifference than sacrifice cows. " Zhuangzi "talks like an ox" in a joke, and never became the prime minister of Chu. In the early years of the Warring States, the princes and soldiers met with each other, with frequent wars and social unrest. In this social background, academic thoughts are unprecedentedly active, and academic schools compete with each other, forming his unique philosophy system and thought bank, which are only a hundred miles apart, so it is also called "the study of Laozi and Zhuangzi". In his later years, Zhuangzi often fished in Pushui (now Qiuhe River in the south of the city) and Xuanshui, and swam in Haoliang (now southwest of Linhuai City in Fengyang, Anhui Province) to watch fish, having fun with fish and birds, and enjoying a quiet and leisurely life. In the first year of Tianbao of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (742), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty issued a biography, giving Zhuangzi the title of "South China True Man" and calling his book "South China True Classic". There are also some scholars who have studied Zhuangzi in past dynasties, and there are hundreds of works. In recent years, Zhuangzi Vernacular and Zhuangzi Modern Edition have been published one after another.

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