When did Taoism originate?

Taoism originated in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It 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. Although Taoism has been one of hundred schools of thought since the Warring States Period, it deified the former moral philosophers. Cults didn't appear until the end of the Han Dynasty, and Shi Tian of Yizhou (now Sichuan) addressed Lao Zi as a gentleman. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the religious form of Taoism was gradually improved. In the Tang Dynasty, I was honored to beautify the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, saying that I was the ancestor of the Tang family.

There is another saying.

The origin of Taoism comes from ancient Taoism of Huang Lao. According to the Yellow Emperor's inquiry about Guang in Kongtong Mountain, I learned that the way of enlightenment even led Lao Zi to go out to Hangu Pass in the Western Heaven, and gave Guanyin and Yin5,000-word Tao Te Ching. This is the stage of Huang from birth to maturity, and it is also the initial stage of Taoism.