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Chinese philosopher (c.369 – c.286 BC)

This article is about the Chinese philosopher. For his eponymous text, see Zhuangzi (book).

Zhuang Zhou (),^[1] commonly known as Zhuangzi (;^[2]Chinese: 莊子; literally "Master Zhuang"; also rendered in the Wade–Giles romanization as Chuang Tzu),^[a] was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought.

He is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching.

Life

See also: Zhuangzi (book) § History

The only account of the life of Zhuangzi is a brief sketch in chapter 63 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian,^[3] and most of the information it contains seems to have simply been drawn from anecdotes in the Zhuangz