Zhuangzi · 逍遙遊第一
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其正色邪
Is that its true color?
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26 Han characters · 22 distinct forms · 5 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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天之蒼蒼，
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Watch recurrence: 其 × 3 蒼 × 2 邪 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Whether distance rather than an intrinsic color explains the appearance.
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Shared constructionMake a predication available for comment王之不王 and 天之蒼蒼 invite comparison as embedded predications. Their surrounding arguments remain different.
Reading methodWhat did the reader supply?Recover the object of 習 in one passage and examine the questioner’s perspective in the other. In both cases, distinguish visible wording from contextual inference.
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論語 · Track whose, which, and whose perspective父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行論語 · Locate the unknown其斯之謂與論語 · Locate the unknown不敬，何以別乎論語 · Locate the unknown曾是以為孝乎Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 莊子 · Zhuangzi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Zhuang Zhou; the received collection includes multiple voices and layers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0126 · base edition CHANT
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0126_001.txt, lines 49–53. ZHUANG 1.1.3; Guo Qingfan 4; Wang Shumin 6; Fang Yong 5; Chen Guying:3
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- Teaching
- zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. English renderings are excerpt-level reading aids, not a full published translation. Editorial pilot · not independently reviewed.
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