Thinker in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the main founder of Taoist school. Said Lao Dan, surnamed Li Minger, the word Bo Yang, hometown (now Luyi County, Henan Province), worked as a historian of the Zhou Dynasty. Confucius once asked him for a gift, and then retired and wrote the Tao Te Ching (Laozi). Say it is Lao Laizi, or Tai Shizhen. Whether the book Lao Zi was written by him has always been controversial. It is generally believed that it generally reflects his thoughts. that is
Explain the essence, composition, birth and death and change of the universe with "Tao" as the core, and put forward "Tao gives birth to everything" and "out of nothing". It is believed that Tao is invisible, invisible and deaf, but "Tao is natural" has an essential and regular meaning, and it puts forward "the movement against Tao", which recognizes the unity of opposites and the transformation movement of things, but ignores it. Advocating soft parenting and opposing strong enterprising; Advocate intuitive meditation and abandon wisdom; Criticize current politics and advocate inaction; Oppose war, thinking that the root of war lies in man-made and material desires; It calls for a return to nature and advocates "a small country with few people" and "tying a rope and using it". There are also ethical aesthetics such as "simple and keep simple" and "singing with enthusiasm". This theory has far-reaching influence and has been absorbed and expounded by various schools in later generations. Taoism regards him as the leader, and the feudal rulers once named him "the Emperor's Emperor Xuanyuan".