The "Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Classic of The Western Mountains" records that there is a god in the Tianshan Mountains, his shape is like a yellow skin bag, red as a flame, he has six feet and four wings, and his head is a chaotic mess, he can't distinguish his face, but he can sing and dance, it is The Emperor River.
This image can be described as extremely grotesque. Guo Pu had a high opinion of Di Jiang in the "Mountains and Seas Sutra Tuzan", although he looked chaotic, headless and brainless, but full of spirituality. Because the Emperor River is "chaotic and faceless", it has another name of "chaos".
The fable "Zhuangzi" writes the story of "chaos". The emperor of the South Sea is named "Qi", the emperor of the North Sea is named "Ku", and the emperor of the Central Sea is named Chaos. In order to repay chaos's friendship, He and Chaos wanted to help Chaos do something, and saw that Chaos did not have five senses and seven tricks, "Everyone has seven tricks to eat and breathe with audio and sound, this is unique", so he wanted to chisel him, so "chiseled a trick every day, seven days and chaos died".
Enlightened the original intention is to open the mind, but did not expect that good intentions did bad things, resulting in irreparable tragedy.
This little story is also intriguing from a philosophical point of view. It seems to contain the great wisdom of pre-Qin philosophy, and Zhuangzi consciously or unconsciously realized the law of the formation of the universe: the Emperor River was chiseled by the Sudden- representing the rapid time - seven tricks, and although the Emperor River itself was dead, the entire universe and the world after the Emperor River were also born.