庄周梦蝶 zhuāngzhōumèngdié Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly
The story from the "On the Equality of Things" chapter in the book [[庄子|莊子|zhuang1 zi5]] of Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterfly and waking to wonder if he was a man dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of a man; used to describe the difficulty in distinguishing reality from illusion or the fleeting, dreamlike nature of life.