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What are the types of allegorical images in Zhuangzi? What are their characteristics?

The characters in the fable of Zhuangzi are widely involved in various social classes, including monarchs, officials, sages, hermits, lobbyists, poor people, deformed people, craftsmen, Confucianism, robbers and grave robbers. And there are immortals and fictional characters of the author. Among them, these three main figures are the most important: the series of celebrities, figures, immortals, saints and real people in history or legend, and the series of weirdos, hermits, experts and craftsmen endowed with the nature of "Tao". One of the most prominent characteristics of these figures is that they are designed for Tao and tailored for the meaning.

The animal images in the fable of Zhuangzi cover a wide range, including Kun Peng, insect repellent tin, snail, learning dock, fish, butterfly, horse, quail, seagull, frog in Kanjing, turtle in the East China Sea, snail, pump lice, goose Peng (meaning lazy bird), cicada, cockroach, rare birds and animals, and so on. Image-building has made great artistic achievements. I don't know how old Kun Peng is. Fish for a while, birds for a while, flying high in Wan Li. Kun Peng is a big creature imagined by the author on the basis of life. It roams in the vast sky, can be deformed, full of magic, representing grand things and super-striding realm. Scorpion, Xueji and Kunpeng are relative, representing a small realm.

Fish swimming in the water is a symbol of freedom, which has aroused Zhuangzi's appreciation to some extent, and triggered a debate about the moat in Zhuang Hui. After the river dried up, the fish either lost their lives and were hung in the "land of dead fish": either, they were drowned in each other's wet feelings and soaked in each other's bubbles, and they were in a mess or even dragged out an ignoble existence. Therefore, the image of fish has different meanings in concrete fables.

Butterfly is light and beautiful, with a pair of flapping wings, which is the embodiment of freedom and beauty. Therefore, Zhuangzi pinned his highest life ideal on the butterfly, and dreamed that it turned into a butterfly in his dream.

Horses live according to their own nature, and they are free. But Bole added a yoke to balance the neck and forehead to the horse, so that the horse gradually learned to fight. In fables, horses can be understood as nature and a symbol of nature. Bole's rule of horses is man-made, which hinders this nature and nature.

Goose Peng, the legendary phoenix bird, "is both a phoenix tree and an acid spring." It symbolizes an arrogant attitude and is a portrayal of a hermit who has no intention of secular life. Crows, that is, owls, feed on rotten mice, which makes people think of being dirty and humble. To make matters worse, the crow is very suspicious, thinking that cranes and geese like to eat rotten mice as much as themselves and will come to compete with them for rotten mice. Crow symbolizes a generation of rich people who are vulgar, narrow-minded, fanatical and have both fame and fortune.

The frog in Kanjing thinks that "it's great to cross the river for the pleasure of Kanjing". When the turtle in the East China Sea told him "the joy of the East China Sea", the frog in Kanjing was at a loss. Although the images of frogs in Kanjing and turtles in the East China Sea are slightly exaggerated, they are in line with the reality of artistic creation. The difference between frogs and turtles, and the disparity between the environment in Kanjing and the East China Sea are the basis of their different knowledge and mentality.

Tortoise is a long-lived and spiritual animal, and tortoise shell is an important tool for divination. In Zhuangzi's fable, the turtle has three images: one is a free, long-lived, happy and humble life practitioner, the other is a spiritual object enshrined in the temple, which is "expensive and has bones"; The third is a prophet, who calculated his last life. These are all images created through careful observation of turtle's life habits and rational thinking of turtle's social function.

Snail is a small creature, because it has two horns, so the author puts two countries that have been at war all the year round on its two horns to illustrate the irrationality and worthlessness of war. The battle of touching barbarians on the snail's horn is one of the most successful images in Zhuangzi's fables, with strange imagination and meaning of accident.

Pump lice parasitic on water pumps have a special living space, so the author gives them feelings and mentality, which is used to compare those who are short-sighted and can't think ahead.

Goose Peng, also known as lazy bird and swallow, is a clever bird. A lazy bird living in the East China Sea, slow-moving, weak-looking, flying in groups, sticking to the golden mean, can stay away from disaster. Quails nesting in the house also know how to choose and save themselves. Zhuangzi's fable deduces the truth of being a man from Hubei Peng's living habits, which makes Hubei Peng a symbol of being good at being a man.