The latter version is completely inconsistent with Zhuangzi's thoughts. In fact, it is only a little related to the Neo-Confucianism that has become more and more distorted after the Song Dynasty. The Zhuangzi wife in the story is the embodiment of human desire. She is lascivious and eager to remarriage. She also sent her lover to her lover's body. At that time, it seemed to be damn. However, this is really the heart of the wretched little man. Looking at Zhuangzi’s attitude, he is dead. If a wife meets a good person, why not remarriage? Prince Charming can catch it and not affect Zhuangzi himself. Besides, the dead body, for whom to eat is not to eat, the crow can also eat, the ants can also eat, used to eat for the Prince Charming?
Refuting the later story is to restore the original spirit of Zhuangzi. If you follow the story of the later story, Zhuangzi should hate women, but it is not the case. Taoism does not dislike women.
However, we can also see that Zhuangzi did not put love in a high position. As a great writer, he did not write love songs. To treat love, the attitude of Taoism is acceptance, but it is not placed in a high position.
After the Han Dynasty, Taoism was born and gradually mixed with Taoism, and there was a new change in attitude towards women. In general, restrained sexual desire gradually shifts toward the elimination of sexual desire. This is mainly because Taoism is more of a witchcraft technique, but also a cultivation, and its goal of cultivation is not the Tao itself, but a more realistic purpose such as immortality. The cultivation of these techniques often requires abstinence. For example, people who practice qigong in the present can't live too much. According to their theory, fine can be turned into anger. If there is less sex in life, it will lose gas. Therefore, after this Taoism and Taoism, it gradually alienated women.
In addition to sex, in terms of feelings, Taoism has always been relatively indifferent. Coupled with the influence of the Buddhist abstinence thoughts, the relationship between Taoism and women is even more alienated. Do not hate or hostile to women, nor do not despise women, but will deliberately keep a distance from women.
Therefore, among the gods, with a few exceptions, most have become singles. Including the handsome man like Lu Xianbin in the Eight Immortals, there is nothing wrong with He Xiangu, when he often does not want to "eight immortals crossing the sea", playing with the surf yacht, and there is no office romance. Occasionally there is a god of Sifan, who goes to the world to live with human beings and will be punished by the Jade Emperor or anyone who is arrested.
In my opinion, the relationship between Taoism and women is gradually alienated, which is not good for Taoism. Leaving the spirit of women, it is also the essence of Taoism. In the future, there may be a rediscovery of Taoism. It should strip away the excessive genre of Taoism and explain the basic ideas of Taoism. Perhaps, we should learn from the study of women, to explain the spirit of Taoism, the kind of water-like, containable, easy-going and internal, firm, flexible and intelligent spirit. Among foreign thinkers, Jung’s thought is closest to Taoism. He is also an esteemed “female spirit”. He refers to the male-female spirit as “Anima”, pointing out that men can learn collective subconsciousness from Anima. Wisdom. Therefore, our males can also find female spirit in their collective subconscious, and can also live in a female attitude.
The so-called room-in-law, in the symbolic sense, is the combination of male spirit and female spirit in order to get real-life force. A man without a woman is unlikely to be healthy and long-lived, because he does not combine with the female spirit, and there is no opportunity for the female spirit to supplement the male mental deficiency.
On the whole, the modernized world is a world of male spirit. The world values competition, achievement, expansion, acquisition, higher and faster, and stronger. The male spirit has its advantages, but its shortcomings are also obvious. Because of excessive competition, most people in the society feel pressure. Because of the desire to acquire, nature is overwhelmed. The female spirit is peaceful, not everyone pursues the first; the female spirit is natural, the nature is more concerned about the environment and the quality of life; the female spirit is more loving than ambition, the world may not "progress" faster But it can be better. In the symbolic sense, we may say that modern people are men who don't know how to practice in the room, and who are not good at yin and yang, so our world will become so boring.
New Taoism may have to establish some female idols, some simple, kind and peaceful female images, let their water-like minds moisturize this world that is over-baked by male fire. The new era should be the era of women. And Taoism in China may contribute to the world with a female attitude and spirit. This is a Taoist, a female, and a gospel of the world.