A famous Chinese philosopher celebrates his wife's death by drumming

The philosopher Zhuangzi reacted to the death of his wife by sitting cross-legged to sing while drumming on a bowl. Questioned by his friend Houei who found this attitude scandalous, he explained that life is only a passage before a return to the initial nothingness. This conception of death as a natural and spontaneous process is translated by Jean Levi in chapter 18 of the work.