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北冥有魚、其名為鯤、 鯤之大、不知其幾千里也、 化而為鳥、其名為鵬、 鵬之背、不知其幾千里也、 怒而飛、其翼若垂天之雲、    『荘子』 内篇・逍遥遊篇      荘周

In the Northern Ocean there is a fish, by the name of 'kun',  which is many thousand 'li' in size.  This fish metamorphoses into a bird by name of 'peng', whose back is many  thousand 'li' in breadth. When the bird rouses itself and flies, its  wings obscure the sky like clouds.   to JAPANESE   "Although the great is different from the small, yet if they all  indulge themselves in the sphere of self-enjoyment, then all things are  following their own nature and doing according to their own capacity;  all are what they ought to be and equally happy. There is no room  for the distinction of superior and inferior."    ----'Kuo Hsiang' (郭象)  cf. Fung Yu-Lan, CHUANG-TZU, 1989, p.25.