The descendants of Zhuan Xu, the king of Chu, and Levin established a vassal state in the south.

Historical Records of Chu Family: Levin, grandson of Huangdi and son of Changyi. The royal family of Chu belongs to China.

Kuaixiong, the ancestor of Chu people, assisted Zhou Wenwang in destroying the business, and read his merits, so that Xiongyi, the great-grandson of Viscount Kuaixiong, founded the country in Danyang, with a territory of 50 miles.

In its heyday, the biggest jurisdiction of Chu was roughly Hubei, all of Hunan, Chongqing, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Shanghai and parts of Zhejiang.

Lao Tzu (about 57 BC1-47 BC1? ), the word Bo Yang, posthumous title Yong, also known as Li Er (in ancient times, "old" and "Li" were homonyms; "Yong" and "Er" are synonyms. He was the "official in charge of collection room" (the official in charge of collection) of the Zhou Dynasty. He is one of the great philosophers and thinkers in China, the founder of the Taoist school, and [3] is honored as the founder of Taoism and a world cultural celebrity. Laozi's idea of health preservation is "inaction"-no consumption. Laozi used "Tao" to explain the evolution of everything in the universe, and "Tao" is objective (Tao: the phenomenon of cosmic energy).

Laozi

Laozi

The laws of nature, at the same time, have the eternal significance of "independence is constant, freedom is not dangerous". The book Laozi contains many simple dialectical views, such as that everything has two sides, which can be transformed from opposition to opposition, and it is a "movement against the Tao", "the restoration of good and evil, the restoration of good and evil" and "the refuge of misfortune". He also believes that everything in the world is the unity of "being" and "nothing", and "being and nothing" are the foundation, and "everything in the world is born of something and born of nothing". His motto about the people is: "Heaven is more than enough to make up for it, and humanity is less than enough to make up for it"; "People's hunger is as much as food tax"; "People die lightly, but they live on it"; "People are not afraid of death. Why are you afraid of death?" . His philosophical thoughts and the Taoist school he founded not only made important contributions to the development of China's ancient ideology and culture, but also had a far-reaching impact on the development of China's ideology and culture for more than two thousand years.

As for his identity, some people think that he is Lao Laizi, a native of Chu. At the same time as Confucius, he wrote 15 books to promote Taoism. Some people think it is Zhou Taishi (dān), who lived 100 years after the death of Confucius. Sima Qian, a famous historian, explained in Historical Records of Laozi's Biography of Han Fei that there were two kinds of speculations about Laozi at that time. "Or: Lao Tzu is also an old boy, writing fifteen books, which are used by Taoism and contemporary with Confucius." At that time, Sima Qian also suspected that Laozi was an old Laizi, not the founder of Taoism.