The Mental Freedom And The Artistic Creation Of Zhuangzi’s Works

Zhuangzi has been favored by the scholars from the ancient times to the present dueto the creative explanations of Laozi’ s thoughts and eminent skills of the constructionsof the work. It is universally said that Nei Pian was written by Zhuangzi, and that hissuccessive scholars wrote Wai Pian and Za Pian in which most points of view generallyreflect his ideas although a few thoughts are different from Zhuangzi’ s.Therefore, thethesis based on Zhuangzi delves into the spirit of freedom and the relations betweenartistic creation and it. Three aspects as follows comprise make up the paper:First, the first chapter talks about the derivation of the spirit of freedom, such as thesocial background and his pondering of humans’ survival at a loss. In the chapter, thefirst sector demonstrates the differences between the freedom of Zhuangzi and in thewest, what the spirit of freedom of Zhuangzi is and the importance of the spirit. Thesecond sector is about the tough survival and crucial reality from which Zhuangzi thinksthat people should seek the free spirit, and the last one discusses blind survival, whichstates that people should obey the rules of Dao, and maintain the natural status andpursue the spirit of freedom according to Zhuangzi’s personal feeling. So the wars andstrifes in the era of the spring and autumn and the warring states and individual survivalat a loss are major causes of the free spirit.Second, the second one is about the spirit of freedom which is composed of theroot of it and the relationship between the cognitive style about the world and the waysof self-cultivation about whatever goes naturally.Three sectors are composed of thechapter, and one of them discusses that the spitit originates from Dao, and people shouldtake its natural course in pursuit of freedom. And the second one explains that there areno differences in the universe even between death and life or beauty and ugliness.Besides, the last one demonstrates that people are able to gain the ever-lasting spiritualfreedom if all keep calm and don’t think too much.The last one discusses the spirit of freedom and the artistic creation of Zhuangzi’sworks. The first sector is about the impulse of art mainly talking about the main cause ofthe elegant works written by Zhuangzi. And the second sector analyses the success ofcreating so many artistic images, the fabulous literary structures and affluent fables and legends.In addition, the end of the thesis mainly concludes that Zhuangzi has an essentialimpact on the history of Xian Qin literature, especially on the prose, and it contributes toenlarging the themes of Xian Qin prose and enriching the cultural connotations of XianQin prose. Meanwhile, it has left us the valuable cultural wealth.