What is the proposition of Taoism?

Taoism advocates the pursuit of longevity, enlightenment, salvation and inaction.

Taoism, which originated in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is a primitive religious form of polytheism. Its main purpose is to pursue immortality, achieve immortality, and help the world and save people. It occupies an important position in China's ancient traditional culture and develops actively in the modern world.

Taoism takes "Tao" as its highest belief and holds that "Tao" is the source of all things. In the traditional culture of China, Taoism, together with Confucianism and Buddhism, is a dominant theory and a way to cultivate immortality.

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The influences of Taoism are:

1, Taoism, as the main force of inheriting Taoist thought, has successively produced metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties, metaphysics in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and inner alchemy in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and its position in the academic field is naturally self-evident. Philosophically, Taoism's dialectical thinking method of universe ontology, yin-yang transformation and regular movement is a traditional world outlook and methodology generally accepted in ancient times. The complementation of Confucianism and Taoism is an incisive summary of China traditional culture.

2. The Taoist thought of "governing by doing nothing" coincides with the western market economy thought of "invisible hand".

Feudal rulers often use Taoism to consolidate their rule and pray for the long-term stability of the country. Qin Huang Hanwu was keen on magic, and Tang Zong Song Zu respected Taoism. The wind of worshipping Taoism prevailed in the Ming Dynasty.

4. Folk Taoism often becomes the ideological weapon and organizational form of peasant uprising. From the Yellow Scarf Uprising in the late Han Dynasty, Li Hongzhang Uprising in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Anbaili Uprising in the late Yuan Dynasty and the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, all kinds of uprisings emerged one after another, and "doing justice for heaven" became a distinctive banner of peasant uprisings.

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