Information about Laozi

Lao Zi, surnamed Li Er (李耳), was known by his first name, Dan (聃), and his first name was Bo Yang (伯阳), or posthumously Bo Yang (賦). A native of the late Spring and Autumn period, his birth and death dates are unknown, born around 571 B.C. in Bitter County (the name of an ancient county) in the late Spring and Autumn period in the state of Chen (later into Chu). He was an ancient Chinese thinker, philosopher, writer and historian, the founder and main representative of the Taoist school...?

Lao Zi is a world cultural celebrity, one of the world's 100 most famous historical figures, and is known as Laozhuang together with Zhuangzi. In Taoism, Laozi is honored as the founder of Taoism, and is called "Taishang Laojun" (太上老君). In the Tang Dynasty, Laozi was posthumously recognized as the founder of the Li surname.

Lao Zi's thought had a profound influence on the development of Chinese philosophy, which centered on simple dialectics. In politics, Laozi advocated the teaching of doing nothing and not speaking. In terms of power, Lao Tzu taught the principle that what goes around comes around.

In the cultivation of the body, Laozi is the originator of Taoism's life and life cultivation, which emphasizes the cultivation of an empty heart and a solid stomach, and the cultivation of not competing with others. Laozi's heirloom work, Tao Te Ching (also known as Laozi), is one of the most widely published and distributed works in the world in written form.

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Lao Tzu's writings and thoughts have become valuable assets of the world's historical and cultural heritage. The influence of Laozi's thought is not only unrivaled within Taoism, but also far-reaching outside of it.

The influence of Laozi's thought not only includes the disciplines of philosophy, religion, political science, economics, sociology, aesthetics, ethics, literature, psychology, education, logic, and rhetoric, but also involves the fields of medicine, health care, qigong, military, management, architecture, and horticulture, among many others. According to incomplete statistics at the time of the Yuan Dynasty, since the pre-Qin Dynasty, the study of the old note old writings to the Yuan Dynasty, more than three thousand kinds.

As early as the eighteenth century, some Western countries have had a variety of text versions of Laozi. According to UNESCO, the Laozi is the most widely published book in the world today, except for the Bible, and there are more than 300 editions in Japan alone.

By the 1940s and 1950s, there were more than 60 translations of the Tao Te Ching in Europe***, and world-renowned scholars such as German philosophers Hegel and Nietzsche, and the great Russian writer Tolstoy, all had in-depth studies of the Tao Te Ching and all had monographs or monographs.

Laozi is one of the three great sages of the East in the eyes of Westerners. The New York Times of the United States has listed Laozi as one of the world's top ten ancient and modern writers. London's British Library Square has the world's top ten thinkers statue, Laozi for one of them. Laozi thought has long broken through the national boundaries, become the whole of mankind **** with the spiritual wealth.

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