Taoism was formally founded by Shi Tian's ancestor Zhang Daoling, and Laozi was the founder of Taoism. Although Taoism was one of the schools of thought contending during the Warring States Period, cults did not appear until the end of the Han Dynasty. Shi Tian Taoist in Yizhou (present-day Sichuan) revered Laozi as an old gentleman. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the religious form of Taoism was gradually improved.

Taoism, the concept of China's ancient worship of ghosts and gods, is based on the thoughts of Huang and Lao Taoism, and has inherited the immortal magic since the Warring States Period. Taoism is a polytheistic worship, and worshipping immortals personifies Taoism's belief in "Tao". Taoist priests are Taoist priests, and there are more than 30,000 Taoist priests in China.

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Laozi is revered as the ancestor of Taoism in Taoism, and his book Laozi was renamed Moral Truth, which is a major religious classic.

Since the legend of the immortals, I have been listed as a fairy. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chengdu Axe King wrote the Monument to the Virgin of Laozi, which combined Laozi with Taoism and regarded Laozi as the god of heaven and earth. It became the embryonic form of Taoist creationism. When Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty personally offered sacrifices to Laozi and regarded Laozi as the ancestor of Xiandao.

In the Tang Dynasty, the emperor honored Lao Zi as the Emperor Xuanyuan, and in the Song Dynasty, Lao Zi was named the Emperor Laojun. His Taoist honorific title is "the old gentleman on the throne", also known as "mixed Yuan Di", and he is also the moral god among the founders of taoist sanqing.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Taoism