Scope and Contents The Butterfly Dream 蝴蝶梦 Hu Die Meng. Based on a famous story of Zhuangzi who had a dream that he became a butterfly. After he became awake, Zhuangzi wondered if he had become a butterfly, or the butterfly had become human. In the same story, Zhuangzi's wife had died recently, and a friend asked why he did not mourn. To which Zhuangzi replied, "When she died, I was in despair, as any man well might be. But soon, pondering on what had happened, I told myself that in death no strange new fate...