Daoism

Daoism stands alongside Confucianism as one of the two great religious/philosophical systems of China.  As the two streams of thought developed in later times, Confucianism has often been understood to represent the mid of the Chinese scholar in his office or study concerned with matters of family and society, while Daoism represents the same individual in a private chamber or mountain retreat, often seeking surcease from the cares of official life.

The term Daoist — the school or family of the Dao– did not enter the Chinese vocabulary until the Han dynasty, around the second century B.C.E. In earlier periods this current of thought was referred to as “the teachings of the Yellow Emperor and Laozi” (Huang-Lao) and, later, of “the teachings of Laozi and Zhuangzi.”

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