Introduction to the work:
Tao Te Ching, also known as the True Classic of Morality, Five Thousand Words of Laozi, and Five Thousand Articles of Laozi, was a work of China before the separation of the pre-Qin philosophers in ancient times, and was highly praised by the philosophers at that time. This legend was written by Laozi (Li Er, a native of Luyi, Henan Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is an important source of Taoist philosophy. The Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts. The first part is the Classic of Dehai, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, without chapters. Later, it was changed to hail shed Taoist scriptures in the first 37 chapters, followed by Tao Te Ching in the 38th chapter, which was divided into 8 1 chapters.
This is the first complete philosophical work in the history of China.
To explain the evolution of all things in the universe with Tao, we think that Tao gives birth to one, two, three and three things, and Tao means that the life of the desert is contained in the hail shed, but it is natural, so "man should be in the earth, the earth should be in the sky, the sky should be in the Tao, and the Tao should be natural". "Tao" is an objective natural law, and at the same time it has the eternal significance of "being independent and unchanging, walking without danger"
An overview of Laozi;
The book Laozi contains many simple dialectical views, such as that everything has two sides, and the "movement of Tao" can be transformed from opposition, "what is right is strange, what is good is evil" and "what is bad is good, and what is bad is hidden". It is also believed that when everything in the world is fierce, it is the unity of "existence" and "nothingness", and "existence and nothingness" are the basis. "Everything in the world is born with it, and everything is born without it."
In addition, there are a lot of people-oriented thoughts in the book: "Heaven has more than enough to make up for it, humanity is not enough to celebrate, and loss is not enough to serve the rest"; "People's hunger is as much as food tax"; "The death of the people is light, and it is thick to linger"; "People are not afraid of death. Why are you afraid of death?" . His theory had a far-reaching impact on the development of China's philosophy. There are many translations and original versions of Laozi from ancient times to the present, so it is difficult to study the origin of Laozi.