庄子,名周,战国时宋之蒙人。从他渊博的知识和与他交往的友人(如魏相惠施等)可推知,他大约出身于没落贵族阶级。庄子曾为“漆园吏”,但为时不长,便隐退乡里从事著述和讲学。他生活十分贫寒,曾“往贷粟于监河候”,(《外物》)也曾“衣大布而补之,正系履而过魏王。”(《山木》)住在穷巷,靠打草鞋度日,饿得面黄饥瘦。这种阶级地位的变化,就给我们提出了一个有探讨价值的问题:庄子是像某些论者所言顽固地坚守旧贵族的立场,为奴隶制的沉没唱挽歌,还是自觉或非自觉地向下层人民靠 Chuang Tzu, Ming Zhou, Song of Mongolia. From his profound knowledge and contacts with his friends (such as Wei Hsieh, etc.) can be inferred that he was born in about the declining aristocracy. Chuang Tzu was a “paint garden official”, but for a long time, he retired from the village to engage in writing and lecturing. He lived in a very poor condition and had been “waiting for a loan to stay in the river” (“foreign objects”) and had “made up a large cloth, which was being played by Wei Wang.” (“Mountainwood” Shatter day, starved hungry hunger. This change in class status has given us a question of value: Chuang Tzu, as some commentators have stubbornly adhered to the old aristocracy, sang elegy for the sinking of slavery, consciously or unconsciously Rely on the lower people