1. The text of Tao Te Ching takes "virtue" 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, mostly for political purposes. 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.
2. Zhuangzi, also known as Nanhuajing, is a summary of Taoist thought by Zhuangzi and his later scholars in the middle and late Warring States Period. Zhuangzi also deeply criticized instrumental rationality.
3. The Book of Changes, one of the three changes of the Book of Changes (another view: the Book of Changes is three changes, not the Book of Changes), is one of the traditional classics. It is said that it was written by Zhou Wenwang Ji Chang, and its contents include The Book of Changes and Biography.
Value influence
1, Tao Te Ching covers many disciplines such as philosophy, ethics, political science and military science. , and was respected by future generations as a treasure house of governing the country, managing the family, cultivating oneself and doing research. 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.
2. Zhuangzi's articles are fantastic in imagination, ingenious in conception, rich in ideological world and literary artistic conception. Wang Yang's writing style is bold and unrestrained, romantic in artistic style and magnificent and mysterious, which is a typical work of pre-Qin philosophers' articles.
Zhuangzi's words seem to praise Wan Li with infinite imagination, but they are well-founded and more important than historical materials. Mr. Lu Xun said, "His style of writing is Wang Yang's, and his manners are all square. The works of the late Zhou philosophers should not be the first. " Known as "nine-flow pliers, bag a hundred bags."