How much influence has Taoist thought had on Chinese culture?

Taoism and Buddhism are both present in our country up and down thousands of years without interruption, without extinction of the traditional culture, even in the extremely rapid renewal, the pace of life is very fast today, has not been digitalized underfoot, such traditional ideas and thoughts are still passed down in our Chinese blood, while the culture of our country is a certain influence.

I. The influence of Taoism on Chinese culture

Taoism is one of the main schools of thought in China, but also passed down to this day to teach knowledge of the important basis of reasoning, Taoism's core concept is based on the Tao no nature and nature, the Taoist school of thought that the heavenly Tao of inaction, the Tao of nature, that is, go with the flow of nature, they believe that all things have opposites, and based on such a concept puts forward They believe that everything has opposites, and based on this concept, they put forward the political and military concepts and strategies of ruling by doing nothing and overcoming the strong with the soft, which have had a profound and unnoticeable impact on the culture of our country over the past thousands of years. The influence on China's traditional politics lies in the practices and theories of the Taoist Huang Lao school. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, when a hundred schools of thought were contending, the concepts of Huang-Lao Taoism put pre-Qin on the path of advanced realism. On top of this foundation, Huang Lao Taoist we also put forward the idea of Taoist birth law, is what we often hear now, Taoist birth one, one life two, two birth three, three births, this idea was put forward, not only solved the problem of the legitimacy of the law, but also for the later generations to Taoist concepts of governance to open up the road.

The influence of Buddhism

Buddhism has played a great role in the cultural development of our country since it spread to our country from India, mainly in architecture and literature and painting and music, and more y in the governance of the country as well as the language and text have a certain degree of influence. From the architecture and literature, China now retains the most ancient buildings are Buddhist temples and pagodas, such as Songyue Temple Brick Pagoda in Songshan, Henan Province, as well as Wutaishan Nanchan Temple in Shanxi Province, there are many other temples such as these, they are valuable records of China's ancient architectural history, but also absorbed the characteristics of the Indian Buddhist development of China's national characteristics of the art. Literarily speaking, it is most obvious that the ideas of Prajna and Zen Buddhism influenced the works of the poets of the Tang Dynasty in China, and the two poets who were most significantly influenced were Bai Juyi and Wang Wei.

It can be seen that sometimes a revolution in thought without costing a single soldier is more significant than a revolution in battle with bloodshed and murder, a change in the thinking of a nation takes a long time, and a change in thinking requires us to penetrate slowly, and cannot be rushed.