Laozi's Classic of Tao Te Ching is a colorful stroke of China culture, which contains many famous philosophical sayings.
It has been more than 2600 years since it was written by Lao Zi, a great thinker in China. It had a far-reaching impact on China culture, and it was called "the emperor's skill" in the history of China, that is, the emperor managed the world in such a way.
Tao Te Ching, as the highest leading science in China, has had a profound influence not only on China, but also on the world.
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The text of Tao Te Ching takes "morality" in the philosophical sense as the main line, and discusses the ways of self-cultivation, governing the country, using troops and keeping in good health, but most of them aim at politics. It is the so-called "inner sage and outer king" theory, which has profound meaning and wide tolerance and is known as the king of all classics.
It is one of the greatest masterpieces in China's history, and it has a far-reaching influence on traditional philosophy, science, politics and religion. According to the statistics of UNESCO, the Tao Te Ching is the most widely translated and published cultural masterpiece except the Bible.
This paper mainly discusses "Tao" and "morality": "Tao" is not only the natural way of the universe, but also the method of personal practice, that is, cultivation; "Virtue" is not the usual morality or virtue, but a monk's special world outlook, methodology and way of dealing with people.
The content covers philosophy, ethics, politics, military science and many other disciplines, and is respected by future generations as a treasure house of governing the country, managing the family, cultivating oneself and learning. It had a profound influence on China's philosophy, science, politics and religion, and embodied the world outlook and outlook on life of the ancient people in China.
The cultural thoughts of pre-Qin philosophers and China people were all influenced by Laozi, and were praised as the king of all classics by Chinese ancestors? . The influence of Tao Te Ching is also various, including politics, culture, science, religion and so on.
According to the incomplete statistics of the Yuan Dynasty, from the pre-Qin period to the Yuan Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 kinds of works that studied and annotated the old, among which there were no fewer than 1000 kinds of representative works, which showed the great influence of the Tao Te Ching.
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