Qi Xie is a book about strange things. "Qi Xie" records: "When Pengniao moved to the South China Sea, it flapped its wings on the water, flew in a whirlwind circle, and left with the strong wind in June. The fog in Shan Ye and the dust in the air are the result of biological respiration. The sky is dark blue. Is it its true color? Or is it because the sky is too high to see the end? Peng just looked down at the sky.
The extended material 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. 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 even Liezi who can walk against the wind are "waiting for something" and are not free, which leads to and expounds the truth that "there is no one but himself, and the gods are useless and the saints are nameless";
Finally, through the argument between Keiko and Zhuangzi about "usefulness" and "uselessness", it is shown that only by not being used by the world can we be "carefree". The full text is rich in imagination, novel in conception, magnificent and grotesque, with Wang Yang's wanton and romantic spirit between the lines.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Happy Journey