Zhang Daoling is the first generation of Shi Tian. Zhang Ling was born in Fengyi (now Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province) in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Tao Shu says: He is the grandson of Liu Hou's eighth ovary in Han Dynasty. Born in the fifteenth night of the first month of the tenth year of Jianwu, born in Tianmu Mountain, Wuzhi. At the age of seven, he read two Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, which is what he meant. As a scholar of imperial academy, he is familiar with astronomy, geography, philosophers, the Five Classics and more than a thousand scholars. In the second year of Yongping (59), Jiang Zhouling (now Chongqing) in Baiba County was 26 years old. Fundamentally speaking, he is the founder of Taoism.
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Taoism, which originated in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is a primitive religious form of polytheism. Its main purpose is to pursue immortality, achieve immortality, and help the world and save people. It occupies an important position in China's ancient traditional culture and develops actively in the modern world. Although Taoism has been one of hundred schools of thought since the Warring States Period, it deified the former moral philosophers.
Cults didn't appear until the end of the Han Dynasty, and Shi Tian of Yizhou (now Sichuan) addressed Lao Zi as a gentleman. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the religious form of Taoism was gradually improved. Laozi Li Er (the Grandfather) was the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty he was honored as the sage of Yuanque Avenue and the Emperor Xuanyuan. Taoism takes "Tao" as its highest belief and holds that "Tao" is the source of all things. In the traditional culture of China, Taoism, together with Confucianism and Buddhism, is a dominant theory and a way to cultivate immortality.
Laozi, the founder of Taoism, regards "Tao" as the noumenon of the universe and the law of all things, which is a mysterious existence beyond time and space, and established a theoretical system of Taoist theology based on "Tao"; The mysticism of Laozi and Zhuangzi and the thought of keeping in good health constitute the core belief of Taoism. Paying attention to the cultivation of health preservation, the monastic methods proposed by Laozi and Zhuangzi, such as quietness, simplicity, forgetfulness and first class, have been inherited and carried forward by believers.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Taoism