From: the philosophical work Tao Te Ching by Lao Zi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, the original text is as follows:
It is a world trend to know his man and keep his woman. For the world stream, Changde never gives up and returns to the baby. Know its white, keep its black, for the world, for the world, Changde is special, and it is endless.
I know what a strong man is, but I would like to be a stream in the world. Willing to be a stream in the world, eternal virtue will not be lost and return to the state of innocence like a baby. I know what light is, but I am content with the dark position and I am willing to be a model for the world. I hope to be a model of the world, and the eternal virtue will remain unchanged, returning to the inexhaustible truth.
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Tao Te Ching is a philosophical work of Lao Zi (Li Er) in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as Tao Te Ching, Lao Zi's Five Thousand Words and Lao Zi's Five Thousand Articles. It is a work before the separation of pre-Qin philosophers in ancient China and an important source of Taoist philosophical thoughts.
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. ?
Tao Te Ching is one of the greatest works in the history of China, which has a profound 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.