What's interesting here is that Laozi himself doesn't want to write this book, and spreading this book is also his ideological obstacle. Then why did he leave this book? There is a saying that Lao Tzu went west and was stopped by a man at Hanguguan, and was not allowed to go out. It is said that in order not to lose his theory, he told Lao Tzu that he would not be allowed to go through the customs unless he wrote down his ideas.
How can I live as an old man of seventy or eighty? Helpless, I can only agree.
It was a work of China before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient times, and was highly praised by the philosophers at that time. It is a philosophical work of Laozi (that is, Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the pre-Qin period, Lu's Notes on the Spring and Autumn Period was called Shangzhijing, and in the early Han Dynasty it was called Laozi. This book has been honored as Tao Te Ching since Emperor Han Jing, and it was translated into Sanskrit by Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. Tang Gaozong respected Tao Te Ching as Shang Jing, and when Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty respected it as Tao Te Ching. The ancient horse king piled up two parts, the first one was a moral article, and the second one was a Taoist article. The modern edition has 8 1 chapters, the first 37 chapters are Taoist chapters, and the last 44 chapters are German chapters. Tao Te Ching, a magical book, is known as the king of all classics and one of the greatest masterpieces in China's history, which has had a far-reaching influence on China's philosophy, science, politics and religion. According to the statistics of UNESCO, the Tao Te Ching is the most widely translated and published cultural masterpiece except the Bible.