Taoism advocates inaction, which many people think is to avoid and escape war, but this is not the case. Laozi is very supportive of the war against injustice. Laozi also has many different views on war, among which the application of dialectics in the military is even more amazing. Laozi said that "ruling the country with righteousness and using troops with strangeness", while Sun Tzu's art of war emphasized that using troops should be taken by surprise, attack it by surprise and win it by surprise. It can be seen that many strategic strategists agree to win the war with Jones, and there are countless examples of defeating the enemy with Jones at all times and in all countries. It is flexible and profound to win by raiders and govern the country by the right path.
(2) Art
Taoist thought has a far-reaching influence on later art, and its contribution to painting is more prominent. The "virtual reality" advocated by Taoism adds the charm of overall philosophy to the wonderful realm of poetry and the connotation of Chinese painting. China's ancient poems pay great attention to the truth and falsehood. The coexistence of truth and falsehood is the usual method for poets to write poems, which highlights the artistic conception embodied by poets. Sometimes, the quality of writing poetry is not based on the gorgeous accumulation of language and words, but on the artistic conception embodied in poetry. There are many such examples, especially about painting. Chinese painting pays more attention to artistic conception, and a large part of Chinese painting has blank space. These blank places are likely to be rivers or distant mountains. Chinese painting is not as realistic as western painting, and the characters should be vivid. But pay more attention to charm.
The most classic example of reality is the origin of "the ancient temple hidden in the mountains". The title of the topic is "Ancient Temple Hidden in the Deep Mountains", which requires the painter to highlight the hidden artistic conception. The original idea was how to make the temple paintings look remote and shabby, but none of them could highlight the artistic conception well. One of the paintings is a corner of the cornice of a temple in the deep mountains, but it still can't fully show the artistic conception of hiding. It was not until an old monk carrying water appeared in a painting that the artistic conception was vividly expressed. If there is a monk who carries water, there must be a temple, and becoming an old monk means that this temple is old and broken. If it is a newly built temple, it should be prosperous. There are many young monks carrying water, and there is no need for old monks to carry water themselves. Through this analysis, the artistic conception of "the ancient temple in the deep mountains" has been perfectly expressed through reality. The old monk is real, the ancient temple is empty, and the coexistence of reality and reality perfectly expresses the artistic conception. Appreciate Chinese without understanding the truth, then you know nothing!
(3) Historical development
Although Taoism was not a prominent school in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it played an extremely important role in the history of China. After the demise of the Qin Dynasty, when the founder of the Western Han Dynasty was in a state of exhaustion, Liu Bang, the emperor gaozu of Han Dynasty, adopted the Taoist thought of governing by doing nothing, and reduced taxes and shared interest with the people. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty adopted this policy when they came, which also created the "cultural scene rule" in the first prosperous period in China history. After the troubled times, at the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty, we should adopt the thought of Taoist inaction. For example, the prosperity of martial arts in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the rule of Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty and the prosperity of fighting against cadres in the Qing Dynasty all reflected the great role of Taoist inaction to a certain extent, but Taoism, a religion evolved from Taoist thought, has a strong religious color. After the end of a dynasty, social problems emerged one after another, and the people's lives were miserable and in dire straits, and they could not stand the oppression of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees. Such as the Yellow Scarf Uprising at the end of Han Dynasty and the Peasant Uprising at the end of Sui Dynasty.