I. Original text

Staff sergeant listened and worked hard; The sergeant heard that living is death; The corporal smiled. Just laughing is not enough. So there are suggestions: Ming Dow is ignorant; If you flinch; Yi Dao Ruo; Sage is humiliating, Guangde is insufficient, and Jiande thief is true; Generous; A late bloomer; Great voices and voices; Elephants are invisible. Tao is hidden and nameless. Only when the husband is the Tao, can he succeed.

Second, translation.

1, the staff sergeant listened to Tao's theory and tried his best to implement it; The sergeant listened to Tao's theory with a grain of salt; Corporal laughed at Tao's theory. If you are not laughed at, it is not enough. Therefore, people who made statements in ancient times all said: Ming Dow is like darkness; The way forward is like going backwards; A smooth road is like a rugged road; Noble virtue is like a canyon; It seems that vast virtues are not enough.

2. Honest virtue is like laziness; Simple and pure, as if turbid. The whitest thing contains dirt instead; The most square thing has no edges and corners; The loudest sound sounds silent instead; The largest image has no shape. Tao is hidden and nameless, nameless and silent. Only Tao can make everything have a good beginning and a good ending.

Third, Tao Te Ching.

1, Tao Te Ching, a philosophical work written by Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period, is also called the moral truth, with 5,000 words and 5,000 articles by Laozi. It is a work of China before the separation of the pre-Qin philosophers in ancient times, and it is an important source of Taoist philosophy. The Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts, the first part is the Tao Te Ching, and the second part is the Tao Te Ching, regardless of chapters.

2. Later, it was changed to chapter 37 of Tao Jing, and then to chapter 38 of Dejing, which was divided into 8 1 chapter. 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.

3. Tao Te Ching is one of the greatest works in the history of China, which 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.