To the north of Zhongbei lies the Dark Sea, a natural pool. There is a fish there whose breadth spans several thousand li, and its length iroportionate to its breadth; its name is Kun. — *Liezi: Tang Wen*

In the Northern Darkness there is a fish, whose name is Ku — *Zhuangzi: Free and Unfettered Wandering*

In the Ming Dynasty, Deqing wrote in his *Commentary on the Inner Chapters of Zhuangzi*: "Tern Darkness' refers to the Northern Sea. It is a vast and distant place unseen by ordinary people, used as a metaphor for the profound and mysterious Great Way. The Kun the sea is a metaphor for the embryo of a Great Sage nurtured within the body of the Great Way, just as a great Kun cannot be nurtured without the vastness of the thern Sea."

Incorporating the Kun into the inkstone symbolizes the need for grand and magnificent goals and the magnanimity to tolerate others, which will surely lead to the acent of great undertakings. The name of the inkstone, "Fuyao," is derived from Li Bai's poem: "When the great Peng rises on thend, it soars straight up ninety thousand li."