What is the core of Taoism?

Taoism takes "Tao" as the core, thinks that the avenue is inaction, advocates the nature of Tao, and puts forward political, economic, governing the country and military strategies such as Taoism, guarding men and women, and combining rigidity with softness. It has simple dialectical thought, is an extremely important philosophical school in "a hundred schools of thought contend", exists in various cultural fields in China, and has a great influence on the culture of China and even the world.

A large number of Chinese and foreign scholars began to notice and absorb the positive thoughts of Taoism, so scholars said: "Taoist thought can be regarded as the great product of the Chinese nation." It is the center of national thought and has the spirit of' the benevolent regards it as benevolence, the knower regards it as knowledge, and the people do not know it for daily use'. "

As a complex theory, Taoism's idea of expanding information has gone through thousands of years since ancient times, and naturally there will be many different names in the middle after many stages of development, which is self-evident.

In its early days, according to the region and time, there were various titles such as Zheng Dao, Jin Dao, Qin Dao, Chu Dao, Qi Dao, Warring States Dao, Pre-Qin Dao and Primitive Dao. According to the direction, there are northern Taoism and southern Taoism.

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