Zhuangzi
Overview
Chinese people
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philosopher
Chinese philosophy
Chinese philosophy is philosophy written in the Chinese tradition of thought. The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States era, during a period known as the "Hundred Schools of Thought", which was characterized by significant intellectual and...
who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period
Warring States Period
The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, or the Warring Kingdoms period, covers the Iron Age period from about 475 BC to the reunification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC...
, a period corresponding to the philosophical summit of Chinese
Culture of China
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thought — the Hundred Schools of Thought
Hundred Schools of Thought
The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from 770 to 221 BC during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period , an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China...
, and is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi (book)
The Taoist book Zhuangzi was named after its purported author Zhuangzi, the philosopher. Since 742 CE, when Emperor Xuanzong of Tang mandated honorific titles for Taoist texts, it has also been known as the Nánhuá Zhēnjīng , literally meaning "True Classic of Southern Florescence," alluding to...
. His name Zhuangzi (English "Master Zhuang", with Zi being an honorific) is sometimes spelled Zhuang Tze, Zhuang Zhou, Chuang Tsu, Chuang Tzu, Chouang-Dsi, Chuang Tse, or Chuangtze.
Zhuangzi is thought to have lived during the reign of King Hui of Liang
King Hui of Wei
King Hui of Wei , originally called Marquis Hui of Wei, and after 344, King Hui of Liang was the third ruler of the state of Wei during the Warring States Period, ruling from approximately 370 BC–319 BC...
and King Xuan of Qi, in the span from 370 to 301 BCE.
Unanswered Questions
Quotations
Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!
"Discussion on Making All Things Equal"
A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
:Of a person who has limited life experience and hence world view; see wikt:井底之蛙|井底之蛙.
The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, not the great as too big, for he knows that, there is no limit to dimensions.