Tao Te Ching (traditional Chinese)

The traditional Chinese character for Tao Te Ching is Daode_.

"Tao Te Ching" is the "Tao Te Ching", also known as "Lao Tzu" and "Lao Tzu's Five Thousand Essays". ***Chapter 81, more than 5,000 words, divided into two parts. Lao Tzu.

My surname is Li Ming'er, with the courtesy name Dan and Boyang, or the posthumous title Boyang. He was born in the Spring and Autumn Period. His birth and death dates are unknown, and his place of origin is also controversial. Laozi is the founder and main representative of the Taoist school, and is called "Laozi and Zhuangzi" together with Zhuangzi. In Taoism, he is revered as the Taoist Patriarch and is called "Tai Shang Lao Jun". In Taoism, "Zhuangzi" is also called "Nanhua Zhenjing", "Liehzi" is also called "Chongxu Zhenjing", and "Tao De Zhenjing" together are called the Three Sutras, which are regarded as major classics by Taoism.

Main idea:

Use "Tao" to explain the evolution of all things in the universe, that is, "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives rise to all things." "Tao" is the "husband" "No one is destined to do anything but nature." Therefore, "man follows the earth, earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature." In addition to simple materialist views, "Laozi" also contains a large number of simple dialectical views, such as the belief that everything has positive and negative sides, "the opposite is the movement of Tao" and can be transformed by opposition. In addition, there are also some in the book There are a lot of people-oriented thoughts: "The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more damage, but the way of man is not the same. If the loss is not enough, there will be more than enough."; "The people are hungry because of the high food tax"; "The people despise death. "The people are not afraid of death, so how can they be afraid of death?" His theory has a profound influence on the development of Chinese philosophy.