SHORT STORIES FOR BEGINNERS Learn Chinese Idioms zhuāng zhōu mèng dié庄周梦蝶 Zhuang Zhou dreams he's a butterfly. It means not knowing what is real and what is a dream. My name is Zhuang Zhou. One day I fell asleep in the garden. I had a dream. In the dream, I was a butterfly. I flew around， feeling so happy! When I woke up, I wasn't sure who I was. I thought, "Did I dream I was a butterfly? Or did the butterfly dream it was me?" It indicates all things in the universe exist in perpetual flux. 这表明宇宙万物始终处于流转变化中。 The self of today is no longer the self of yesterday; 今日之我非昨日之我， What appears real at this moment may flicker into illusion the next. 此刻之实亦可能是彼刻之虚， wǒ jiào zhuāng zhōu. 我叫庄周。 yī tiān, wǒ zài huā yuán lǐ shuì jiào. 一天，我在花园里睡觉。 wǒ zuò le yí gè mèn. 我做了一个梦。 zài mèng lǐ 在梦里， wǒ shì yī zhī hú dié. 我是一只蝴蝶。 wǒ fēi lái fēi qù, 我飞来飞去， hěn kāi xīn!很开心！ xǐng lái hòu, wǒ bù zhī dào, 醒来后， 我不知道， zì jǐ shì shuí. 自己是谁。 wǒ xiăng, "shì wǒ mèng jiàn hú dié? hái shì hú dié mèng jiàn wǒ ne?" 我想，“是我梦见蝴蝶？还是蝴蝶梦见我呢？”