Taoism in China began with Lao Tzu, but its origins can be traced back to Fuxi, the Yellow Emperor and King Wen of Zhou.

Fu Xi's great merit is to act in gossip.

Bagua may have started as a tool for counting in ancient times. For example, two numbers, 1 and 0, form a three-digit number, what is the total combination? In fact, there are four "111", "100", "110", and "101" starting with 1, and there are also four "000", "011", "010", and "001" starting with 0.

Because the ancients counted with lines at the beginning, one horizontal and one broken in the middle.

But Fu Xi is great at being like heaven and earth, and connects this gossip with the universe, heaven and earth, wind and thunder, "111" is the Qiangua, and "000" is the Kun hexagram.

This is the foundation of ancient Chinese culture, so friends who have the opportunity to go to Huaiyang must visit the Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum!

King Wen's merit is "Zhou Yi".

If Fuxi's innate gossip is about the three-dimensional relationship between man and the entire universe, then King Wen's acquired gossip is the plane relationship between human beings and the earth.

The hexagram names and epithets of the sixty-four hexagrams of "Zhou Yi" are the seeds of Chinese civilization; Many familiar words around us are hexagram names. And Zhou Yi, as the first of the hundred classics, is not only a great treasure of Chinese Yixue and Taoism, but also Confucianism, etiquette and even politics. The beginning of civilization.

If a Chinese only reads one book in his life, I think it should be "Zhou Yi".

Lao Tzu's merit was to first propose and interpret the concept of "Tao".

The status of the Tao Te Ching may be above all the later Taoist books, although it is only 5,000 words, but if you want to really understand it, it may take a lifetime.

Therefore, if you want to memorize a classical Chinese and learn to live, you must memorize the Tao Te Ching. If you have the opportunity, you should also go to the Voryang Tianjing Palace and the Luyi Taiqing Palace.

These three great and unborn figures have opened a long-standing vein in Chinese culture.

It's a pity that after Zhuangzi, who was full of Taoist spirit, Taoism seems to have taken some detours.

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The first to take shape and have a great influence in history were Fang Shidao and Taiping Dao.

Although the former is loose and the latter is somewhat organized, neither can become a true Taoist.

And they have one thing in common, that is, they are too close to the secular power in reality.

The former is a way of attachment, so there are five large-scale visits to the east by Qin Shi Huang, and the only possible achievement is that Mr. Xu Fu's efforts may have created a nation, which is many years earlier than the legend of Wu Dalang who was driven away by Mr. Ximen Qing. There is also Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to seal the five mountains, and legend has it that he still waged war against the "sea god" in the sea.

But the immortals were never seen, and the monks were confused. Because cultivation in Taoism is a wholehearted and lifelong act, poor Qin Emperor Han Wu, he actually wants to reap the twilight of the dynasty, and begging for the unblessed shrine, of course, there will be no gain. But Fang Shi still has Waidan. This outer pill is a statement that distinguishes it from the later Quanzhen Sect's inner dan, which is the golden pill of refining and eating, while the inner pill is the vitality of cultivating oneself.

The study of Wai Dan was of great significance to Chinese medicine and chemistry, but it did not have much success in the early development of Taoism. For example, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, who later gave up the great cause of the ages when he was in his fifties, may have died of pill poisoning; Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi was almost strangled to death by the palace maid because he wanted to take the raw materials of the pill.

After the defeat of Fang Shidao, he was replaced by Taiping Dao. Since you can't be attached, you have to fight for it.

It cannot be ruled out that the middle- and lower-class people who participated in the Taiping Dao struggle have a positive significance in fighting for their own lives, but the distance between their high-level personnel and the real "Tao" is very large. The failure of the Taiping Dao not only brought about the desolation of Cao Mengde's writing, but also brought an almost devastating blow to the development of Taoism.

However, for the development of Chinese civilization, it is really a blessing to know that Saion has lost his horse.

Otherwise, the system of Taoism and kingship would predate Byzantium and Arabia in the Western Middle Ages.

Looking at the Chinese civilization by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is clear that the Tao did not form the benefits of this kind of integration of politics and religion. If that were the case, Middle-earth would not have become the center of Buddhism in the world, and the development of Confucianism would have been greatly affected, and the mind of Heiichiro Togo, who had "worshiped Fuyangming all his life", would not have appeared.

But this blow was fatal to Taoism.

Fortunately, there was Guo Pu who wrote the "Book of Burial" in the Western Jin Dynasty who believed in the "Pure Ming Dao", fortunately there were semi-immortal-level figures like Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were theoretical masters such as Lu Jingxiu and Tao Hongjing in the Southern Dynasty, and Sima Chengzhen in the Tang Dynasty was a master of Taoism, and Chinese Taoism finally developed.

And the one who played a decisive role in the later glory of Taoism was Chongyang, the king of Jin Daxia's "Zhongshentong"!

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