In 286 BC, the 29th year of King Zhou Yun, the 43rd year of Song Junyan, the 15th year of King Qi, and the 84th year of Zhuang Zhou.

King Min of Qi, the king of Qi, united Chu and Wei to attack Song, and the people of Song fled in all directions, but the city could not be defended, so King Kang of Song fled to the residence of the Marquis of Ni, and soon the Qi army captured and killed him. The Song Kingdom was destroyed, and the three kingdoms jointly divided the land of the Song Kingdom.

The fall of the Song Kingdom, for Zhuangzi, did not have a little "patriotic spirit". Opposite! I feel that this is a relief for the people of the Song Kingdom.

In the face of human history, it can only be a temporary relief.

The people of the Song Kingdom finally got rid of the oppression of King Song Kang and came out of their suffering.

Of course! It's just that he came out of the oppression of King Song Kang, not that there will be no oppression from now on. Until human beings have chosen the correct direction of life, there will be no long-term happiness.

So! It can only be said that the people of the Song Kingdom came out of the suffering under the oppression of King Song Kang, not that the people of the Song Kingdom will be able to live a happy life from now on, and mankind will be able to live a happy life from now on.

After the partition of Qi, Wei, and Chu, the Song State will face different tax policies of the three countries. The fate of the people of the Song Kingdom will also be divided into three types, and no one can know whether they can live the same life as the people of the occupying country.

But? Annihilation is not the same as vassalization. After the destruction of the country, it may enjoy the national treatment of the occupying power, while the vassal country will face double taxation. So! Relatively speaking, it is better to destroy the country than to vassalize.

The situation in the world is such that the small vassal states will eventually perish and be unified by the big vassal states. So! The fall of the Song Kingdom was only a temporary relief for the people. Future! The people living in this land will also face the fate of annihilation.

So! The people of the Song Kingdom only temporarily bid farewell to the miserable life, the miserable life under the oppression of King Song Kang, and are about to face another fate in the future.

It's still the same sentence! Until human beings have found the correct guiding ideology for life, human beings will not have a long-term happy life. All happy life is only temporary.

Although Zhuangzi does not have the concept of the shame of destroying the country, he still has a sense of the soul. What he saw was not just the people of the Song Kingdom, the destruction of the Song Kingdom, but! The fate of humanity as a whole.

It's still the same sentence! Until human beings have found the correct guiding ideology for life, human beings will not have a long-term happy life. All happy life is only temporary.

The demise of the Song Kingdom somewhat made Zhuangzi have that feeling of "being born without love".

As early as a few years ago, his sons Zhuang Ping and Zhuang Geng were both forcibly dragged to the battlefield by King Song Kang and died on the battlefield.

Zhuang Ping and Zhuang Geng avoided military service when they were young, but when their children and grandchildren grew up, they had to volunteer to serve in the military in order to avoid their children and grandchildren's military service, so as to protect their children and grandchildren.

During the period of King Song Kang, there was no way, under the persecution of King Song Kang, your family had to give a few soldiers. Not voluntary, right? Then there is only forcible conscription.

Although the youngest son, Zhuang Su, became a son-in-law in the family of the Marquis of Jianhe, he did not need to serve in the military when he was young. But later, the hereditary title of Marquis of Jianhe was withdrawn, and there was no privilege, so Zhuang Su naturally had to go to military service.

Zhuang Su's situation was the same, in order to avoid his children and grandchildren from serving in the military and to make fearless sacrifices for King Song Kang, he himself had to go to the top and serve in the military. Although he did not die, he became a disabled person, a cripple who needed to be taken care of by his children and grandchildren.

In order to reduce the burden on his children and grandchildren, Zhuang Su chose to commit suicide.

The eldest daughter of the twins has been widowed all her life, and although she is still alive, they repeat the story of mankind and break their hearts for their children and grandchildren.

The youngest daughter's family is safe, and they only have two boys, and the others are girls. The youngest son-in-law is a retired disabled officer who is a subordinate of King Song Kang, and relatively speaking, he is not oppressed by King Song Kang.

In the face of such a situation, Zhuangzi is naturally going to feather and soar! It's true! He had that feeling of being loveless.

His most concerned sons and daughters are old and dead. The children have become the concern of their respective descendants, and he has become an abandoned old man. Although his children and grandchildren often come to visit him, regard him as an ancestor, and ask for advice on life. But he felt that he could no longer feel the kind of affection between parents and children. When you get along with your grandchildren, you just can't find the same affection as you did with your children back then.

The Song Kingdom fell, and Zhuangzi fell "ill".

In the last years of his life, he reinterpreted the writings of Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism. The explanatory text that Zhang Shan had burned was reorganized, and in some places, it was revised.

Other than that! He also took the time to write some thoughts and asked the scholars around him to help burn them and become the latest articles.

The scholars around him, that is, the disciples, saw that Zhuangzi was getting older and older, and they all thought that he was dying, so they discussed holding a decent funeral for the ancestors.

Although Taoists do not pay attention to funeral etiquette, they do not believe in those superstitious things. But Taoism follows the customs and has to be handled according to the funeral etiquette of the people around them.

But? As a true Taoist, they are generally very poor.

Because! In this age of poverty, you have to live like everyone around you. Everyone around you has a hard life, and you have to live a hard life too. Everyone around you is rich, and you must be a rich man too, that's all.

At that time, the Song Kingdom had just been destroyed and there was nothing left. So! Most of these followers are also proletarians.

Zhuangzi was embarrassed when he heard that his disciples were talking about it, and he smiled.

He called his disciples to his side and took the opportunity to give them another lesson.

Zhuangzi said, "Why are you difficult? Don't prepare anything for me, and when I'm dead, you can throw me into the wilderness!" Man comes from between heaven and earth and returns to heaven and earth, right? ”

When the disciples heard this, they wept loudly one by one.

Zhuangzi also persuaded: "I regard heaven and earth as coffins, the sun and the moon as a link, and the stars as pearls, and all things can become my burial." Isn't my burial stuff complete? Where can I find you to prepare funeral goods for me? ”

The disciples cried, "We are afraid that the crows and eagles will come and peck at Mr. Husband's body, like that!" Where can people endure it? Miserable? Mr? ”

Zhuangzi said: "The ground where the corpse is abandoned will be eaten by crows and eagles, and if buried deep in the ground, it will be eaten by ants. ”

The disciples cried, "One is visible, the other is invisible!" It feels different! Mr! We are still willing to choose the invisible kind, so that our hearts will feel better. ”

"It's called self-deception!" Zhuangzi enlightened: "In fact, the result is the same, but we have to dare not face the facts, dare not face the reality, and use this method of self-deception to deceive others.

Just like Confucianism, it's like dreaming, thinking about the future and forgetting the real life. Can't you give up the pursuit of your dreams and live in a real life? ”

The disciples cried, "We all understand this, but ? We feel more comfortable that way. Sometimes, having a dream is like having hope in life. In this troubled world, if you don't even have a dream, what is the meaning of life? That's it! Many people will choose to end their lives by committing suicide. Woowoo woo ......"

Zhuangzi sighed: "Alas! It's just that we were born in this troubled world, really! It's really not easy to survive. ”