Zhuang Zhou, honorifically often known as Zhuangzi, was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching. 369 BC – 288 BC; died at about 81. Alive at the same time as Alexander the Great, Euclid, Chanakya, Apelles, and Aristotle. Wiki link