Laozi's Tao Te Ching, known as the king of all classics, is one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of China.
Tao Te Ching is a poetic text with neat sentence patterns and rough rhymes. It is catchy to read, easy to memorize and easy to remember. It embodies the phonological beauty of Chinese characters in China. For example, "whether there is mutual development, it is difficult to complement each other, the length is different, and the height is inclined" (chapter 2), "empty its heart, solid its abdomen, weak its will, and strengthen its bones" (chapter 3), "frustrate its spirit, resolve its disputes, and reconcile its light and dust" (chapter 4), "its politics are boring, and its people are pure" (chapter 58