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| The Ideological Orientation and Theoretical Characteristics of Taoist “Fishing” Fable |
| DENG Guo-jun |
| College of Chinese Culture, Reserach Center for Chinese Traditional Culture and Guizhou Regional Culture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025 |
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Abstract The “fishing” fables in Taoist works are rich in philosophical connotations. “Zhuangzi’s fishing” in “Zhuangzi: Autumn Water” is a symbol of Zhuangzi’s life value orientation of “non-action” and “non-waiting”. It is not only a vivid interpretation of the philosophical thoughts in “Xiaoyaoyou” and “Qiwu Lun”, but also a wonderful display of Zhuangzi’s free will and independent spirit. The “Ren’s Fishing” in “Zhuangzi’s External Things” uses the “big fish” to metaphorically represent the “great way” of managing the world, expressing the author’s pursuit of governing the world with the Tao and his political ideal of benefiting the world. Its central idea is to use the “fishing” process to illustrate that the key to governing is to persevere and work for a long time. The story “Zhan He’s Fishing” in the “Tang Wen” chapter of Liezi uses the “fishing technique” to metaphorically illustrate the “Taoist technique” of nourishing the heart and preserving the spirit, demonstrating how the subject of behavior can achieve the spiritual realm of unity of body and spirit and controlling objects with the mind through the condensation of the inner spirit. Although the ideological themes of the three fables are different, they are all vivid portrayals of the authors' interests, state of mind and inner spirit. “Fishing” is a specific way to “experience the Tao”. In terms of the way of argumentation, the “fishing” fables in “Zhuangzi” and “Liezi” embody the Taoist characteristics of using events to discuss the Tao and using simple words but profound meanings. These fables vividly illustrate that “the Tao is not far from people”: the Tao is around people, in daily life, and can be thought about and experienced anytime and anywhere.
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Received: 27 May 2024
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