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Free and easy wandering

Xiaoyao you: the Zhuangzi’s image of carefree freedom, roaming beyond the limits of the world.

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Daoism and Chinese thought

The first chapter of the Zhuangzi, Free and Easy Wandering, opens with the giant bird Peng flying ninety thousand li south, mocked by small birds who cannot imagine it. It describes a freedom that depends on nothing, the wandering of the one who has no self, no merit and no name.