Religiously speaking, Lao Tzu created Taoism, turned the Hu people into Buddhism, and Buddhism created myths such as Greece and northern Europe, so people of all religions are considered Lao Tzu's disciples. Laozi's disciple is Yin Guanling Daoism, and Confucius and Confucianism also learned Daoism from Laozi. Laozi westernized the Buddhism of Hu Sakyamuni, but Buddhism did not recognize Laozi's transformation of Hu. These are three disciples.

Laozi's enlightenment of Yin, Zhang Daoling's orthodoxy, Wang's Shaoyang School, Wang's Shaoyang School, Lu's Chongyang School and Quanzhen School. Yin is also the three disciples of Lao Zi.

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The core of Laozi's thought is Tao, and the essence of Tao is nature. Out of respect for nature, Lao Tzu also highly values simplicity and childlike innocence, and thinks that "great ingenuity is clumsy", praises babies for their "kindness" and advocates that gentlemen are "practical and do not live in China".

Simplicity and naivety, as a form of beauty, have always been admired by people in ancient China, while the relative floweriness and frivolity have always been despised by people, which is influenced by Laozi's thought. In addition to simplicity and childishness, Laozi also attaches great importance to calmness, and thinks that "calmness is the best, and victory is not beauty". Plain face is also admired by many people and became an aesthetic fashion in the Song Dynasty.

Laozi's thoughts of "whether there is mutual existence or not" and "if there is something, it will be beneficial, but if there is nothing, it will be useless" have also had a great influence on China's traditional aesthetics and art. China's traditional opera paintings have always emphasized the combination of the virtual and the real, and emphasized that "counting white is black" and "ethereal". These theoretical sources are exactly Lao Zi's theory of "being or not".

Laozi also proposed "tasteless". "Tasteless" was originally about body and Tao, because Tao is invisible and tasteless, so we can't know Tao by perception, but only by body odor. China's ancient aesthetic theory has long believed that aesthetics is not knowledge but experience, which is also influenced by Laozi's thought.

Laozi talked about "going to metaphysics". This theory originally abides by Taoism, and aesthetics should also get rid of material desires. Therefore, this theory was inherited by later aestheticians and became the theory of China's aesthetic view.

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