In the far north without vegetation, there is a sea, that is Tianchi. There is a fish in it. Its body is thousands of miles wide. No one knows how long it is. Its name is Kun. There is a bird. Its name is Peng. Peng's back is like Mount Tai, and his wings are like clouds in the sky. I took a whirlwind to Wan Li, crossed the clouds and carried the blue sky, so I'm going to fly south, to the South China Sea. The sparrow sneered at Peng and said, "Where is it going? I jumped and flew, but I fell a few feet high and circled among Artemisia, which was also an excellent flight. Where will it fly? " This is the difference between small and big.

Original text:

In the north of poverty, there is a ghost sea and Tianchi. There is a kind of fish, which is thousands of miles wide. He who doesn't know his accomplishment is called Kun. There is a bird, named Peng, whose back is like Mount Tai, whose wings are like clouds hanging down to the sky, and whose angle is up to nine Wan Li, who is completely out of the clouds, and then turns south, becoming a ghost in the south. He smiled and said, "He and Shi are jumping up and down, but I am flying between Artemisia. And he is comfortable? " So is this little big debate.

This article comes from Zhuangzi's Free Travel in the middle of the Warring States Period.

Extended data writing background:

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".

Happy Travel is the first article in Zhuangzi, which represents Zhuangzi's philosophical thought. "Wandering freely" is Zhuangzi's ideal of life and the core content of Zhuangzi's life theory. "Endless travel" means "endless travel without waiting", which is independent of worldly things, integrated with naturalization and free to travel in the world without any constraints. "Free and unfettered", in Zhuangzi, refers to the greatest spiritual freedom that people reach beyond the limitations of secular concepts and their values.

The literary feature of Zhuangzi's thought is the reflection of romantic Chu culture, and the miraculous expression of ideal personality is the brand of the prevalence of witchcraft and the strong myth and ghost theory in Chu. Third, it has something to do with Zhuangzi's philosophy of life itself. The absolute spiritual freedom pursued by Zhuangzi's philosophy of life is a kind of modal freedom and an ideal state of mind. Due to the lack of specific theoretical concepts to define it, it is difficult to get a clearer expression and profound revelation. In this case, we can only express the thought of "Tao" and describe the spiritual realm of "freedom" with the help of supernatural mythological images.