 In this passage, Zhuangzi lists emotions along with natural events such as growing mushrooms and alternating day and night. Zhuangzi’s point in this passage is that, like natural phenomena, emotions are aroused spontaneously without any plans or forethoughts. This naturalistic approach, however, does not imply that emotions are unpredictable and unregulated chaos and one should not feel or react to any emotions. Rather, it suggests that one should feel emotions without any expectations or suppositions. Unlike early Confucian philosophers such as Mencius or Xunzi who searches for the ontological or moral foundation of emotions in qing (情) or xin (心 the heart-mind), Zhuangzi, in this passage, takes emotions as they are without relating them to their foundations or analyzing them with their originations. He suggests that one should not judge or inculcate them with social conventions or moral norms.