庄子

山上山下皆人间，无事逍遥即神仙 adds a contemporary life-philosophy use of Zhuangzi through 李闯. The episode turns “逍遥” into Xiaoyao As Non-Dependence / 逍遥作为不被外物左右: not waiting until money, success, doctrine, or magical ability solves life, but loosening the dependence on external scoring while still eating, sleeping, studying, working, and living in the human world.

庄子 appears in 75.故事新编：骷髅被复活后会感激庄子吗？ through 《起死》, where 鲁迅 turns the old skull-dialogue tradition into social satire. The episode’s Zhuangzi is not only a philosophical voice; he is also a cultivated traveler whose doctrine, status, horse, and official contacts let him escape trouble.

The source emphasizes the failure of abstract equalizing language when 杨大 has no clothes, baggage, or livelihood. 《齐物论》 becomes a practical test case: if “life and death are equal” or “this and that are both one right-and-wrong” helps the speaker evade responsibility, philosophy has slid toward Instrumental Belief Critique.

Connections

• 李闯, 《辞职上山》, and Xiaoyao As Non-Dependence / 逍遥作为不被外物左右 - contemporary 面基 use of “逍遥” as freedom inside ordinary constraint.
• 《起死》 - Lu Xun story where Zhuangzi resurrects the skull.
• 《齐物论》 - text and phrase source that the story turns into status marker and failed persuasion.
• 杨大 - resurrected figure whose material demands expose the limits of the philosophical speech.
• Chinese Folk Religion Layering and Mythic Source Layering - adjacent frameworks for how the skull story moves through older religious and theatrical variants.