What is the ideology of Taoism?

The ideological propositions of Taoism honor Taoism and virtue, the unity of heaven and mankind, and the precious life of the world.

Taoism is the ancient native Chinese Spring and Autumn and Warring States Fang Xian Dao, is a worship of many gods polytheism native form of religion, the main purpose is the pursuit of immortality, to achieve immortality, help the world to save people. It occupies an important position in the traditional culture of ancient China and is actively developing in the modern world.

While Taoism was one of the hundred schools of thought from the Warring States period, Taoism deified the original moral philosophers. It was not until the late Han Dynasty that a religious order arose, and at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling founded Taoism, and Tianshidao enshrined Laozi as Taishang Laojun. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the religious form of Taoism was gradually perfected. Laozi Li'er (Taishang Laojun) was the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, which honored Laozi as Emperor Taishang Xuanyuan of the Great Dao Yuanque Shengzu.

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Guo Moruo argued, "Taoist thought can be said to have monopolized Chinese academia for 2,000 years; the Mojia store has long since been subsumed, and the Kongjia store has survived with only a signboard." Taoism, as the mainstay of the inheritance of Taoist thought, has produced Wei and Jin metaphysics, Sui and Tang re-metaphysics and Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing neidanology, whose status in the academic field is naturally self-evident.

Philosophically, Taoism's cosmic ontology of creation out of nothing and the birth of all things by Taoism, and its dialectical thinking method of transformation of yin and yang and lawful movement, were universally accepted traditional worldviews and methodologies in ancient times.

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