Lao Zi is the founder of Taoism, and his ideas have subtly influenced the Chinese civilization for thousands of years from politics, economy, philosophy, military, religion and other aspects. In many ways of original religion, "doctrine of the ancient", culture of Shang Dynasty, "Book of Songs" and the history books, this paper has explored the origins of thoughts of Lao Zi, trying to reproduce its clear context. As the "officer of library in Zhou", after years engaging in politics, Lao Zi used the social change "Countries did not have a fixed enshrined people, and there is no fixed seats between the monarch and his subjects" in the voluminous historical texts. In the face of such dramatic changes "Alpine becomes the valley, deep valleys turns into hills", Lao Zi had on hard thinking to politic, society, life and many other ways. In the puzzling and searching process, Lao Zi inevitably dated from the former generation, and even further back.
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