How old have I lived?
Historical Records lists Laozi as the predecessor of Confucius and a figure around 500 BC. Live to 160 or more than 200 years old. Hanshu said that Confucius studied under Lao Dan. Hu Shi once speculated that Lao Zi was born in the early years of Zhou Lingwang, which was 570 BC.
The main category of Laozi's thought is "Tao", and the word "Tao" appeared 73 times in Laozi's book. Tao is the initial state of chaos, which is quiet and self-correcting. It is the beginning of heaven and earth, the mother of all things and the root of all things.
Tao is often nameless, inaction and inaction. Like water, it is the highest good not to compete with everything for profit, but to overcome the strong with the weak. Tao is unspeakable, and human senses cannot directly perceive, see, hear and hold it.
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Laozi believes that everything in the world exists through comparison. Beauty and ugliness, good and evil, existence, difficulty and length are all interdependent. There is only one thing, right and wrong, good and evil. On the surface, these two opposing aspects are opposite to each other, but in fact they are mutually contained and infiltrated.
"Misfortune is a blessing; Blessed, cursed. " Everything is you have me, I have you, and nothing is static. In the 40th chapter of Tao Te Ching, Laozi put forward "the movement against Tao". In other words, when things develop to a certain extent, they will inevitably transform in the opposite direction. As the saying goes, "if things are strong, they will be old, and if soldiers are strong, they will die."
In the works of pre-Qin philosophers, Laozi was a learned scholar, and in Taoist classics, his image began to be exaggerated. In the early Han dynasty, Huang Lao ruled the country, Fang rose, and Chen Weicheng studied Chinese culture. In this context, the image of Laozi becomes legendary and mysterious.
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