ABSTRACT
By using the particle ju in his question “what is this!?” (hejuhu ), the disciple reveals the location of the scene of instruction, for this particle is peculiar to the areas of Qi and Lu , the heartland of Confucian learning (Wang 1988: 42). It is, then, the whole Confucian project of learning aimed at completion (cheng) that Zhuangzi ridicules.
