Because I don't know how to write a book, so! The book that Zhuangzi began to write is not a book, but can only be said to be an exegetical note.

Zhuangzi was the first person to interpret Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching with written records, and he wanted to use this form to systematically introduce Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching to future generations, so that Lao Tzu's thought could be popular.

As the inheritor of Taoist doctrine, this is also what he must do.

Lao Tzu's philosophical thought is divided into the early and late periods.

In the early stage, it is generally called the "Huang Lao School", and in the later stage, it is called the "Yang Zhu School".

Lao Tzu's early thought was inherited from ancient times, and it was still immature. It can only be said that Lao Tzu is an exploration and understanding of Taoism and Taoism, with a certain inheritance.

In the later period, philosophical thought had a certain degree of independence and formed its own unique philosophical system. It is to jump out of the shackles of the previous thought and interpret people from the perspective of people.

In the early thoughts, it was more about inheritance, the source of preaching about heaven and earth, and the preaching of human beings to imitate the way of heaven and earth to form humanity.

In the later period, the thought was mainly transmitted to Yin Xi, and then Yin Xi passed on Yang Zhu, and Yang Zhu passed on to Zhuangzi. The later thoughts, because they were not passed down by Lao Tzu himself, were spread by Yin Xi and Yang Zhu. So! Later generations believed that the "Huang Lao School" was Lao Tzu's philosophical thought, but did not recognize or deny Lao Tzu, the direct source of Yin Xi, Yang Zhu and Zhuangzi's philosophy.

Most people believe that the Taoism of Yang Zhu and Zhuangzi is basically a continuation of the Tao Te Ching, and there is no direct inheritance of the master-apprentice inheritance relationship.

The real disseminator of Lao Tzu's philosophical thought in the later period was Yang Zhu, not Yin Xi. And the person who exalted it was Zhuangzi.

In order to better let future generations understand Taoism, Zhuangzi began with the interpretation of the scriptures, and the first thing that needed to be interpreted was Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching". Of course! In the Zhuangzi period, there was no word "Tao Te Ching", only two parts, "Tao Jing" and "De Jing".

The Tao Sutra is about what is the Tao, the source of heaven and earth, the source of all things, and the source of human beings.

It's more about preaching, about what the sermon is.

It is more about existence and non-existence, "creating something out of nothing", talking about "one life giving birth to two, two giving birth to three, three giving birth to all things", and so on.

In fact! It's a change in preaching.

In fact! That is, evolution, everything has evolved over tens of millions or even countless years.

Because the brain education and knowledge of ancient people are still relatively narrow, so! It's hard to make these things clear. So! Lao Tzu took a lot of saliva when preaching.

In modern language, the world has evolved, and everything has evolved. Including heaven, earth, universe, and starry sky, everything is evolved. Because it is so old, we can't find out what it originally evolved.

Lao Tzu said that "evolution" is the Tao, or that the first thing is the Tao. Therefrom! We are also the Word. Because! We don't know what it will evolve into in the future, maybe? We will evolve a more wonderful world......

The Book of Virtues mainly talks about the relationship between man, society and nature. The main thing is that people should imitate all things in heaven and earth and form humanity.

We won't create, but we can imitate, we can copy.

The word shanzhai should be familiar to modern readers!

How should human beings live?

We can imitate heaven and earth! How does heaven and earth live?

At the end of the Book of Virtues, it is the last home of human beings deduced by Lao Tzu, that is, "small countries and widows". Like-minded people live together in the same way that people live together and have nothing to do with wild animals.

The voices of chickens and dogs are heard by each other, and the old and dead do not get along.

Man lives the life of a man, and a beast lives the life of a beast. Like-minded people live together, and like-minded people are no different from beasts.

If the wild beast wants to eat man, we will kill the wild beast. Or! Compress their living space.

We will kill others as they would have done to us. Or! Compress their living space.

Survival is our purpose and task, and man, like all things, is just a species on the earth. Rather than being mutually exclusive, we are interdependent. So! When others invade us, they are like wild beasts. So! We can exterminate them.

Therefore! There is a "death penalty" for human beings.

War! It is the execution of one party against the other.

The German scripture is relatively general and has no specific subdivisions. It can also be said that it is only a general and approximate story, and there is no specific subdivision.

And in the Yang Zhu period, it began to be subdivided.

During the Yang Zhu period, he put people in the position, and looked at people, society, how to govern society, and how people survived in society from the perspective of people.

And Lao Tzu's Book of Virtues does not specifically subdivide these from the perspective of people. But! It's not that Lao Tzu didn't take these things into account.

Again, Lao Tzu is talking about the outline, the "Constitution". Yang Zhu and Zhuangzi are talking about specific laws and regulations according to the "Constitution", as well as local regulations.

Just like a country, no laws and regulations can violate the "Constitution". Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" is the Taoist "Constitution" and outline, and Yang Zhu and Zhuangzi's thoughts are based on Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", which is the "Constitution" and outline.

Both Yang Zhu and Zhuangzi believe that social problems cannot be solved without solving individual problems. Because! Society is made up of individual people.

Individual people don't know what they live for, they don't know what they live for, and they live in vain, and they live a mediocre life.

Individual people don't know what they live for, what they live for, or! Choosing to live with a wrong mind, this society is bound to be chaotic.

Imagine? You think you're doing the right thing, then! Other people's ways of living are wrong. Or! Other people's ways of living are all right, we don't have our own way of living, I live as others live. This is the life of the "shadow", attached to others.

If our thinking is confused and the way of living is different, it will inevitably lead to conflicts with each other, so is it strange that society is not chaotic?

For example, some people think that labor and management are the best in the world, and you are all my slaves. If everybody thinks that way, then? Who are the slaves? It's strange if they don't fight each other.

For example, if someone thinks that the law of the jungle is the strong, if everyone thinks so, it is strange that they don't fight each other?

For example: some people think that this society is deceitful, then! There is no integrity in this society. If there is no honest society, it is strange if there is no chaos.

There are many, many examples, and it can be seen from this! Wrong thinking is the root cause of social chaos.

The greatest contribution of Taoism is that he solves the problem of the origin of human beings. This problem is solved from the height of materialism and dialectics.

Materialism and dialectics are the correct way of thinking for human beings.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was such an understanding, which shows the wisdom of early Taoist figures such as Laozi, Yang Zhu, and Zhuangzi.

Thousands of years later, there are still a large number of people who remain in the mode of religious thinking.

Without solving the problem of the universe and the origin of human beings, human society will not be at peace.

Only when we have solved the problem of the universe and the origin of human beings, as well as why and what we live for, and only when human beings have chosen the correct outlook on life, the world, and the universe, and can live rationally and healthily, will mankind usher in true peace.

Taoist theory originates from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, so! Zhuangzi had to start with the classics and interpret them.

Unfortunately! These precious words have not been handed down in their entirety.

Zhuangzi's interpretation of the Tao Te Ching can only be found in the fifty-two chapters of the later Zhuangzi.