Taoism2
Taoism is a religion that originated in Ching, probably during the 300’s B.C. Taoism is also the name of a religion that began in the 100’s B.C. Through the many years this religion has influenced artists and writers in the East and West. The word Tao (also spelled Dao) originally meant road or way. The Taoist studied their religion and they believed that everything in the world was explained by the way. The word (the way) is also meant as reality as a whole or individual �ways� The beliefs of Taoism appear in two books, the “Lao-tzu� (later renamed the “Tao Te Ching� The Classic Way and Virtue) and the Chuan-tzu are all the different books that they often read. The “Lao-tzu� is a book that was brought together by many unknown authors. At first Confucianism was very popular among the Chinese but they believed they had to many rules. In Confucianism people can live a good life only in a well-disciplined society that stresses attention to ceremony, duty, mortality, and public service. Although in Taoism it was not as strict. In the Taoist
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Yin Yang, Guan Di, Virtue Chuan-tzu, Christians God, Xia Gui, East West, BC Taoism, Tao Qian, , Book Encyclopedia, folk religion, breath formed, religion believed, taoist religion,
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