Da Ye cast gold, and the gold leapt and said, “I shall become Mo Xie!” Da Ye would deem it an ominous gold. Now a being takes on a human shape and says, “Human ear! Human ear!” The creator would consider this an ominous person.
——《Zhuangzi·Great Master》
Now, Master Da Ye is forging metal, and the metal jumps up saying, “I must become the Mo Xie sword!” Master Da Ye would certainly think this is an ominous metal. Now a person accidentally acquires a human form, yet says “I am a human I am a human,” and the creator would certainly regard this as an ominous person.
Xiangzi is not an ominous person, so he would not say “I am a human”; instead he should say “I really want to become human.”
