庄子

Zhuangzi (about 369 BC through 286 BC), given name as'Zhou'and styled name as'ZiXiu', is from Meng district in Song in Warring States period (the north-east of Shangqiu Henan province today). He is a famous thinker, philosopher, literaturer and the representative of the school of'Dao', the successor and developer of the philosophical thinking of Laozi, the founder of the school of Zhuangzi in pre-Qin. His theory covered every side of the society at that time, but its essential spirit still belonged to the philosophy of Laozi. So later people called him and Laozi as'LaoZhuang', their philosophy was called'the philosophy of LaoZhuang'.