In the Northern Ocean there is a fish，by the name of kun（鲲），which is many thousand li in size.This fish metamorphoses into a bird by the name ofp’eng（鹏），whose back is many thousand li in breadth.When the bird rouses itself and flies，its wings obscure the sky like clouds.
“The general idea of Chuang Tzu is to show the happy excursion，the indulgence in the way of nonaction and self—enjoyment.He，therefore，told the story of the extremely great and the extremely small，in order to illustrate the fitness of the nature of things.”—Kuo Hsiang