The present discussion aims to help corroborate recent claims that the link between nourishing life 養生 and the Butcher Ding 庖丁 vignette from chapter 3 of the Zhuangzi 莊子 (c. fourth to third century bce) might be taken seriously, while at the same time falsifying recent claims that it is nonetheless uncommon for the connection to be taken seriously. This is achieved by supplying several pieces of textual evidence from leading figures from throughout the history of Zhuangzi studies who all explicitly make the connection and take it seriously. Beyond corroborating one claim and falsifying the other, the present discussion provides renderings of much hitherto untranslated work so as to prevent future scholars from underestimating just how common it is to take the link between the Butcher Ding story and nourishing life seriously.

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试论庄子评论中“屠丁”与“养生”的关系

当前的讨论旨在帮助证实最近的说法，即养生与《庄子》（约四至三世纪）第三章中的屠夫丁庖丁小插图之间的联系公元前）可能会被认真对待，同时伪造最近的说法，即这种联系被认真对待的情况并不常见。这是通过提供来自庄子研究历史上的领军人物的几条文本证据来实现的，他们都明确地建立了这种联系并认真对待它。除了证实一种说法并证伪另一种说法之外，当前的讨论还提供了许多迄今为止未翻译的作品的翻译，以防止未来的学者低估认真对待丁屠夫故事和滋养生命之间联系的普遍性。