Zhuangzi’s Thoughts On Chinese Education And It’s Historical Contributions As Chinese Language Curricum Resources

Chinese traditional language education is deeply impacted by Confucianism and Taoism. As Taoist classic, Zhuangzi proposes a lot of blame on righteousness, decency and propriety of Confucian, because it put the same conception of "Dao". Zhuangzi inherits and develops Laozi’s point of view on "no-word teaching". Nowadays, the researcher of Zhuangzi spreads from literature, historiography and philosophy to pedagogy. Moreover, the text itself is open and polysemy. So, there are so large of contending space about zhuangzi’s conception on Chinese language education.This paper intends to explore some useful insights and modern value of Zhuangzi’s conception on Chinese language education from three aspects, in order to form complementary between Confucianism and Taoism. Chapter one deals with Zhuangzi’s thinking of Chinese language which contained in the text itself and involves its language ontology conception, teaching theory and learning concept. Chapter two inspects Zhuangzi’s article writing paradigm that names "San Yan"(the allegory for broad, the tautology for truth, the Zhi Yan for prevasion). This chapter focuses on article ontological concept and article writing concept that contained in Zhuangzi from article theory view. Research from language curriculum resource, the article writing paradigm of "San Yan" is the reason why Zhuangzi should be part of Chinese language curriculum resource. Chapter three discusses Zhuangzi’s historical contribution as Chinese language curriculum resource. First, Zhuangzi impact the history of Chinese thought deeply. Second, Zhuangzi also impact the history of Chinese language education, especially in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Finally, Zhuangzi will be inspected in the historical context of the contemporary language education.Zhuangzi’s thought on Chinese education is still full of vigor after thousands years ago. The paper studies Zhuangzi’s thought on Chinese education and inspect the whole text as Chinese language curriculum resource, in order to make the ancient achievements to serve the current Chinese education.