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庄子 · 北冥有鱼
The opening line of the Zhuangzi: a fish so large nobody knows how many miles it runs.
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鲲鹏kūn péngthe great fish and the great bird it becomes
原文 · THE OPENING
Běi míng yǒu yú, qí míng wéi kūn.北冥有鱼，其名为鲲。In the northern darkness there is a fish, and its name is Kun.
Kūn zhī dà, bù zhī qí jǐ qiān lǐ yě.鲲之大，不知其几千里也。Kun is so large that no one knows how many thousand miles it runs.
Huà ér wéi niǎo, qí míng wéi péng.化而为鸟，其名为鹏。It changes into a bird, and its name is Peng.
冥 is darkness and depth, and doubles for 溟, the open sea. The book opens on a scale nothing human can check, which is the point of the chapter it opens, 逍遥游, Free and Easy Wandering.
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A one-page Chinese lesson from the HSK 6 set, filed under 文 · Culture. The opening line of the Zhuangzi: a fish so large nobody knows how many miles it runs.
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