Butcher Ding: A Slaughter Ballet
A butcher performing a most beautiful ritual slaughter: A celebration of spiritual skill or a satirical critique of violence and war?
#Zhuangzi #Daoism #Philosophy

Sources:
Zhuangzi: https://ctext.org/zhuangzi
Daodejing: https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing
Brook Ziporyn, Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings. Hackett: 2020. (Recommended)
A.C. Graham, Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters. Hackett: 2001.
Roel Sterckx (ed.), Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Early China. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005.
Hans-Georg Moeller,“The King’s Slaughterer: Or: The Royal Way of Nourishing Life.” Philosophy East and West 70:1. (January 2020). 155-173.

Contributors:
Scripts: Hans-Georg Moeller (https://www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/Hans-Georg-Moeller/e/B08VS4PP7X?ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vu00_tkin_p1_i0)
Animations: Rory O’Neill (https://enuffing.com/)
Production, Subtitles (Chinese): Fai
Production, Subtitles (Spanish): Manuel Rivera Espinoza
Narrations (English): Simon Barber (https://izwi.com)
Narrations (Spanish): Andrea Martinez (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALwrLdjry1AbD56R8Vnl6A)
Narrations (German): Gerhard “Jerry” Schmidt
Subtitles (Hebrew): Inbal Shamir
Subtitles (German): Hans-Georg Moeller

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