Taoism, which originated in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is a primitive religious form of polytheism. Its main purpose is to pursue immortality, gain immortality and save the world.
It occupies an important position in China's ancient traditional culture and develops actively in the modern world. Although Taoism has been one of hundred schools of thought since the Warring States Period, it deified the former moral philosophers.
Cults didn't appear until the end of the Han Dynasty, and Shi Tian of Yizhou (now Sichuan) addressed Lao Zi as a gentleman. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the religious form of Taoism was gradually improved. Laozi Li Er (the Grandfather) was the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty he was honored as the sage of Yuanque Avenue and the Emperor Xuanyuan.
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The history of Taoism is a process of constantly revising itself, and it is a process of constantly carrying forward the orthodox spirit and integrating, continuing and developing it. Taoism in 2 1 century should actively adapt to socialism, get rid of its own defects and misunderstandings, and adapt to the progress and development of the times. Adaptation, in the final analysis, is the adaptation of Taoism.
Taoists should first let themselves have an ordinary psychological state and the ideological realm of national builders. Taoism is in the real society. Taoists do not live in a vacuum, nor are they supernatural beings. Taoists, like other people in society, live in a normative and legal real society.
Taoist priests are really ordinary people except those who are not religious. "All beings are equal", which is a part of society and a citizen of China people. Taoism also has its own unshirkable obligations and responsibilities for the rejuvenation of its own nation and country.
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