Chinese History and World View: Taoism

Taoism is an ancient philosophical and religious tradition deeply rooted in China's customs and world view. Taoism is also called Taoism, a more accurate way to express Chinese vocabulary in English. Tao is the ultimate creative principle of the universe. Under this spirit, everything is unified and interrelated. The principle of yin and yang represents a complementary powerful world. Taoism was one of the most powerful religions before China's Communist revolution.

The most common religion in China is Taoism. Taoism's history is about 1700 years. This religion is unique to that country, basically in rural areas of Central and Eastern China. Taoism is a traditional Chinese religious doctrine about "road", and road is a combination of elements of religion and philosophy. This kind of teaching is based on religion and philosophy of several philosophical theories of ancient China. Teaching in the world is the foundation of modern Chinese Taoism. As in today, the country has 1,500 Taoist temples and monasteries, including 25 thousand monks and nuns.

For centuries, Taoism has had a great impact on Chinese culture. China's alchemy (especially Nedan), Chinese astrology, Zen (Zen), some martial arts, Chinese medicine, Feng Shui have always intertwined with Taoism. Today, even outside China, Taoism affects neighboring societies in Asia.

Chinese philosopher Zheng Zhongying believes that Taoism is an integrated religion in Chinese history and tradition. "Confucianism, Taoism, or even later Chinese Buddhism belongs to these ideas and organizations.This is still religion in this sense.Zheng Zhongying also said that Taoist paradise view is" observation and meditation, (Dao) teachings can also include roads to heaven that are unrelated to human nature ". In China's history, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism stand independently from each other. 'Teachings' (triangulation)