"Once Chuang Chou(Zhuangzi)dreamed he was a butterfly. He did not know he had ever been anything but a butterfly and was content to hover from flower to flower. Suddenly he woke and found to his astonishment that he was Chuang Chou. But it was hard to be sure whether he really was Chou and had only dreamt that he was a butterfly, or was really a butterfly, and was only dreaming he was Chou."<br> <br>-Arthur Waley<br>Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China,1939<br><br> "昔者庄周梦为蝴蝶,栩栩然蝴蝶也。自喻适志与!不知周也。俄然觉,则蘧蘧然 周也。不知周之梦为蝴蝶与?蝴蝶之梦为周与?" <br> - 庄子 <br> 《蝴蝶梦》 |