Tao Te Ching, also known as Laozi, was compiled by the Taoist school during the Warring States Period and recorded the theory of Laozi, a thinker at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. It is a book written by China's ancient pre-Qin philosophers before their separation. It was highly praised by the philosophers at that time and was an important source of Taoist philosophy. Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts. The first part of the original work is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, which is divided into 8 1 chapters. This is the first complete philosophical work in the history of China. The Classic of Virtue means to cultivate one's own mind first, while the Classic of Taoism means to improve one's body and mind and realize the spread of Taoism.

Brief introduction of Taoism

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi gathered the great wisdom of ancient sages and sages. Summarized the essence of ancient Taoist thought, formed the moral theory of "inaction", which marked the formal formation of Taoist thought.

Taoism takes "Tao" as the core, thinks that heaven does nothing, advocates that Tao is natural, and puts forward political and military strategies such as governing by doing nothing, guarding men with women, and combining rigidity with softness. It has simple dialectical thought, is an extremely important philosophical school in "a hundred schools of thought contend", exists in various cultural fields in China, and has a great influence on the culture of China and even the world. A large number of Chinese and foreign scholars began to notice and absorb the positive thoughts of Taoism, so scholars said: "Taoist thought can be regarded as the great product of the Chinese nation." It is the center of national thought, full of the spirit of "benevolence is what the benevolent sees, knowledge is what the knower sees, and people do not know it for daily use". "

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it evolved into a sect with unique local characteristics in China-Taoism.

The development of Taoist philosophy has roughly gone through five stages: pre-Qin Taoism, the study of Huang Lao in Qin and Han Dynasties, metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, emphasizing metaphysics in Sui and Tang Dynasties, life science in Inner  in Song and Yuan Dynasties (and the new Taoism being brewed and constructed in modern times).