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Confucianism -> Lunheng -> Daoxu -> 23

If Xiang Man Du could rise to heaven,
he must have become a genius.
How could he return after three years' time?
If a man leaves his kindred,
and ascends to heaven,
his vital fluid and his body
must have undergone a change.
Now, all creatures that have been metamorphosed, do not return to their previous state.
When a chrysalis has changed into a cricket,
and received its wings,
it cannot be transmuted into a chrysalis again.
All creatures that fly up, have wings.
When they fly up, and come down again,
their wings are still there as before.
Had Xiang Man Du』s body had wings,
his tale might be reliable,
but since it had not,
his talk is futile
and not more trustworthy than Lu Ao's.


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