What does Taoism pay attention to?

Taoism pays attention to the inaction of Taoism and advocates the nature of Taoism, and puts forward political, economic, governing the country and military strategies such as Taoism, guarding the male and the female, and combining rigidity with softness, which has simple dialectical thoughts.

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The Influence of Taoism on China

Influence on China's traditional politics. The influence of Taoism on China's traditional politics is mainly reflected in the theory and practice of the Taoist school of Huang Lao. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, social competition intensified. In order to cope with this situation, Huang first put forward the concepts of law, technique, potential, benefit and strength, which made the pre-Qin academic get rid of idealism and began to embark on the road of realism.

On this basis, Huang Laotao put forward the Taoist thought, which not only solved the legitimacy of the law itself, but also opened the way for Taoism to govern the world. In addition, the Huang family also put forward a series of political opinions, such as "Heaven", "Keeping women for men", "Gentleman being lenient with ministers", "quietism", "Simple folk customs", "Recuperating and ruling the country according to law", "Combining punishment with morality" and "letting a hundred schools of thought contend", which embodied the essence of ancient social politics in China.

Judging from the practice of governing the country by Taoism, both the Qi State under the rule, the Qin State under the rule and the later rule of Wenjing have achieved good governance results. Even after Confucianism replaced Taoism as the orthodox thought of the country, Huang Laojia's thought of governing the country did not completely disappear. Many times, the rulers are "tyrannical and miscellaneous", as Xuan Di, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, said.

That is, sometimes it is "serving Confucianism outside" and sometimes it is "serving Confucianism outside". Whenever the monarchical power is partially restricted by subjective and objective conditions, the Huang and Lao families will revive and bring economic and cultural prosperity. Emperors such as Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Song Huizong, Zhu Yuanzhang, Kangxi and so on all interpreted Tao Te Ching, Wen Zhi and Zhenguan Zhi.

Therefore, there is a folk saying that "ruling the world, the Buddha in troubled times, and the Confucianism in chaos". In addition, Taoism, Laozi, Zhuangzi and Yang Zhu also have an influence on China's traditional politics, and they represent the tendency of political seclusion and birth. Politically, intellectuals in China have formed a broad-minded attitude of "being rich will help the world, while being poor will be immune to it". At the same time, the ideal of Peach Blossom Garden of Laozi and Zhuangzi School attracts China people from generation to generation.