Buddhism has long been one of the world's three major religions, but why is the development of Taoism, China's traditional religion, declining?

In the world, there are many religions, but which is recognized as the most influential, the largest number of people have three major religions, respectively, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, of which Christianity is the largest number of people, Islam is the second, Buddhism is the third.

In these three major religions of the world, the Chinese people are the most respected is Buddhism, we all know, Buddhism is not our native religion, it is the Han Dynasty period from India to our country, after so many years of development, but also experienced the Northern Wei Dynasty Emperor Taiwu, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty, after the Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Chai Rong four large-scale extermination of the Buddha and the inheritance to date, the initial Buddhism added many of our Chinese elements! The original Buddhism added many of our Chinese elements, forming the Chinese Buddhism of today.

And we also know that, like Buddhism, Chinese Christianity and Islam are foreign religions, so what is China's native religion? Taoism originated in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Taoism is the highest faith, and its main purpose is to pursue immortality, attain immortality, and help the world. Taoism was originally one of the hundred schools of thought during the Warring States period, and Taoism deified Taoism. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, many Taoist priests appeared, but there has never been a true Taoist system.

Until the Ancestral Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling formally founded the organization of the Order, Taoism, the Taoist system grew rapidly as soon as it took shape, with more and more people believing in Taoism, and there are three major religions in traditional Chinese culture, namely Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. During the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu deposed the hundred schools of thought and revered Confucianism, and for thousands of years, Confucianism has been immersed in the bones of every Chinese person; while Buddhism has gone through a number of large-scale extermination of the Buddha, but still thriving, with a large number of Buddhists. In contrast, our local religion Taoism seems relatively cold, the number of Taoists is not too much, this is how it is? Because like Buddhism believes in Sakyamuni, Christianity will be the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior, Confucianism honors Confucius, the teacher of the ages, etc., the vast majority of religions belong to the monotheistic religion, tracing back to the roots of the emergence of monotheistic religion is to attract more loyal believers in the form of religion, people can only believe in the one supreme God. Taoism is completely different, it believes in many gods, Taoism to "Tao" as the highest faith, pay attention to the "Tao of nature", in another kind of cold expression is: like to believe it or not, do not believe it, do not bother me to cultivate immortal ask. Because of Taoism's cold and spontaneous, so compared to other popular religions, it is the number of believers is small, and it has not been imported into foreign countries, to believe in Taoism to us in China!