The narrative of the “draftsman who loosened his dress” is different from other skill stories in the Zhuangzi by not describing any marvelous skill or wondrous achievement. Instead, it focuses on the attitude of a (presumably) Daoist “professional” towards his task. With a strong element of humor, the story contrasts a zealous and servile multitude of career-focused draftsmen who stiffly make their bows, queue up in line, and dutifully “lick their pencils and prepare their ink,” while the latter avoids the company of the competitors, retreats to a hut, casually sits down and loosens his dress. This chapter addresses the satirical (and, in Bachtin’s terms, “carnivalistic”) nature of the tale, the socio-political critique that it expresses, and the paradoxical notion of “genuineness” in the Zhuangzi, one that involves existential dissociation from our socially imposed roles, tasks, and professions.