The original text said: "The dream of the former Zhuang Zhou is Hu Die, a vivid Hu Die, which is a metaphor for historical records, but I don't know Zhou Ye. If you suddenly feel it, you will suddenly feel it. I wonder if Zhou's dream is a dream or a dream is Zhou He? Zhou he, there are still points. This is called materialization. "
The general idea is that before Zhuangzi dreamed that he turned into a butterfly, he forgot that he was a human being in his dream, and it was a great pleasure to fly around. I woke up to know that I was Zhuangzi, not a butterfly. So it's really hard to tell whether Zhuangzi became a butterfly in her dream or Zhuangzi was in her dream.
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Zhuangzi's theory of everything is a philosophical proposition put forward by Zhuangzi, the main representative of Taoism in the Warring States Period. Among them, with romantic imagination and wonderful writing style, Zhuangzi described and discussed the events in which become a butterfly and become a butterfly were their own after waking up, and put forward the view that it is impossible for people to accurately distinguish between truth and illusion and the materialization of life and death.
Although the story is extremely short, it becomes the representative of Zhuangzi's poetic philosophy because it permeates the essence of Zhuangzi's poetic philosophy.
Because it contains romantic thoughts and feelings and rich philosophy of life, it has aroused the resonance of many literati and poets in later generations, and has become a topic they often chant, the most famous of which is Li Shangyin's Jinse, "Saint Zhuangzi daydreaming, butterfly bewitched, Wang Chunxin cuckoo crowed".
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