Aesoplike

He [Zhuang Zhou] loved to pillory the Confucian thinkers for their proud claims to wisdom and superior rectitude; he teased them with amusing stories about Confucius which are on a par with Aesoplike tales about the “Spirit of the River” and “General Clouds”—the point of many of the stories being that Confucius was really a Taoist in disguise.