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The Crucian Carp's Plea | 鲫鱼求救

Zhuang Zhou, in need, is offered delayed help by an official. He responds with a parable about a ...

chinese-literature dialogue fable
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Cao Shang's Mission to Qin | 曹商使秦

Cao Shang boasts to Zhuangzi about the hundred carriages he received from the King of Qin for fla...

anecdote chinese-philosophy dialogue
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The Skull's Dream | 髑髅之梦

Zhuangzi dreams of a skull that extols the freedom and eternal peace of death, rejecting any noti...

chinese-literature daoism life-and-death
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The Unguent of Song | 不皲之药

Hui Zi destroys a giant gourd he finds useless. Zhuang Zi responds with a parable about a family ...

chinese-literature life-lesson parable
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Zhuang Zhou Dreams of a Butterfly | 庄周梦蝶

Zhuang Zhou dreams he is a free-flying butterfly, then awakens confused about the boundary betwee...

chinese-literature dream-reality metaphysical
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The Fish in the Dried Rut | 涸辙之鲋

Zhuang Zhou uses a parable about a dying fish needing immediate help to criticize Marquis Jianheh...

chinese-philosophy classical-literature educational
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The Tree and the Goose | 山木与雁

Zhuangzi uses the paradox of a useless tree surviving and a useless goose being killed to illustr...

daoism life-lesson parable
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The Unused Gourd | 不材之药

Hui Zi destroys a giant gourd he finds useless. Zhuang Zi, through a parable about a chilblain sa...

chinese-literature life-lesson parable
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Cao Shang's Chariots | 曹商得车

Cao Shang boasts to Zhuang Zi about gaining wealth through flattery, but Zhuang Zi retorts that s...

ancient-china chinese-literature fable
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The Confucian Scholars of Lu | 鲁国的儒生

Duke Aigong of Lu prided himself on his state's many Confucian scholars, but Zhuangzi argued that...

ancient-china confucianism educational
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