One of homesickness, revered by Taoism as the ancestor and a world cultural celebrity. Later people called it "Laozi" (the pronunciation of the word "Lao" is the same as that of the word "Li" in ancient times). Historical Records Three Biographies of Lao Zi Han Fei: "Lao Zi was born in Qurenli, Li Xiang, Chuku County. Last name is Li, first name is Er, and the word is Bo Yang. Zhou Shoucang Shi also. " Reporter: I'm from Guxian, and now I'm in Lu Yi, Henan. Its land belongs to the State of Chen. Chen's extinction was the appropriate year for Confucius' death (479 BC), so I was born in Guxian County and returned to Chen, so I should be a Chen. Chen Guo? Qu in Li Xiang Town, Guxian County, wrote the Tao Te Ching with 5,000 words and 81 chapters. He lived a long life by practicing monasticism, and probably lived for more than a hundred years. Confucius, a contemporary of Confucius (55 1-479), was in his twenties. Confucius asked Laozi for advice several times, saying that Laozi was still a dragon. Laozi lived in the Spring and Autumn Period and served as the director of the National Library in Luoyi, the capital of Zhou Dynasty. He is well-read and versatile. Confucius asked Laozi when he traveled around the world. In his later years, Lao Zi took Qingniu to the west and wrote a 5,000-word Tao Te Ching (also known as Tao Te Ching, or Lao Zi for short, or Lao Zi's 5,000 articles) in Hanguguan (now Lingbao, Henan). According to legend, Lao Tzu once trained Yi Xi, the general commander of Hanguguan. After that, I went west to Kunwu (now zhouzhi county, Xi City, Shaanxi Province). Seeing the ups and downs of the mountains and rivers (Zhong Nanshan Tianyu River) and peaks here, I stopped here and made grass for this building to practice the scriptures. Spread to this day, it is called Louguantai. It is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, national AAAA-level tourist scenic spots, and contains more than 300 inkstones of scholars and poets in past dynasties. History is called the birthplace of Taoism. Lao Tzu was buried in Xilouguan, eight kilometers away from here, and the existing Lao Tzu's tomb. Tao Te Ching contains rich dialectical thoughts. Laozi's philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy constitute two sources of human philosophy, and Laozi is honored as "the father of China's philosophy" because of his profound philosophical thoughts. Laozi's thought was passed down by Zhuangzi, and together with Confucianism and later Buddhism, it formed the core of China's traditional thought and culture. After the appearance of Taoism, Laozi was honored as "the old gentleman on the throne", and Taoism called him the eighteenth incarnation of the old gentleman on the throne; From the biography of the immortal, Lao Tzu has been honored as a fairy. Tao Te Ching has more than 1000 foreign language versions, which is the most translated book in China. Laozi's ideological proposition is "inaction", and Laozi's ideal political realm is "neighboring countries look at each other, chickens and dogs hear each other, and people don't talk to each other until they die." Laozi used Tao to explain the evolution of all things in the universe, which is an objective natural law, and at the same time has the eternal significance of "being independent and unchanging, doing without danger". The book Laozi contains many simple dialectical views, such as that everything has two sides, and the "movement of Tao" can be transformed from opposition, "what is right is strange, what is good is evil" and "what is bad is good, and what is bad is hidden". He also believes that everything in the world is the unity of "being" and "nothing", and "being and nothing" are the foundation, and "everything in the world is born of something and born of nothing". "The way of heaven, the loss is more than enough, but the way of man is not, and the loss is not enough"; "People's hunger is as much as food tax"; "People die lightly, but they live on it"; "People are not afraid of death. Why are you afraid of death?" . His theory has a far-reaching influence on the development of China's philosophy, and its contents are mainly found in the book Laozi. His philosophical thoughts and the Taoist school he founded not only made important contributions to the development of China's ancient ideology and culture, but also had a far-reaching impact on the development of China's ideology and culture for more than two thousand years.
Some people think that Lao Laizi is also a Chu. At the same time as Confucius, he wrote 15 books to promote Taoism. Some people think it is Zhou Taishi (dān), who lived 100 years after the death of Confucius. Sima Qian, a famous historian, explained in Historical Records of Laozi's Biography of Han Fei that there were two kinds of speculations about Laozi at that time. "Or: Lao Laizi is also Lao Laizi, who wrote fifteen books for the use of Taoism and was contemporary with Confucius." At that time, Sima Qian also suspected that Laozi was an old laizi. Nowadays, many scholars have adopted the first view that Laozi was born in Li Er at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period.