Taoism is the spiritual tradition of living in harmony, originated in China about 2000 years ago.

Lao Tzu or (Laozi) was a philosopher of china best known as the founder of Tao Te Ching. It is believe that Laozi lived in the 6th century to the 4th century BC, he was a man followed by many Chinese people at that time due to the fact that a lot of people saw him as a central figure for the Chinese culture. He believed everything in nature takes it course and that one needed to be more spontaneous in ones actions. Some of his followers believe that the Tao is a practice that already existed before the heaven and earth and that everything that exist now basically derived from the Tao. It is say by many legends that Laozi was conceive when his mother gazed upon a falling star and stayed in the womb for 62 years before being born while his mother was leaning against a plum tree, it is said that he was born as an grown man with a gray beard with longs earlobes, both representing the symbol of wisdom and long life. Also others believe in a different version where he was reborn in thirteen different occasions and that his last incarnation was as Laozi. In that period of recognition Laozi was honored as an ancestor of the tang imperial family, and granted the title of Tishng xunyun hungd, (Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor). According to some sources coming from popular biographies, Laozi was part of a team working as a keeper of the archives for the royal court of Zhou, giving him the advantage that many couldnt have like the access to the work of the yellow Emperor and other features of that classic time. Stories affirm that Laozi never did open a formal school but still many people who followed his rituals and costumes came to him to be his loyal disciples.

During his period of life Laozi married and had a son named Zong, who became a celebrated soldier, popular sources said, but this is just one of the many stories about who he really was and what he really did. One of the facts that all of these different versions of Taozi life have in common are when they all specify that he taught that all straining and all striving are not only vain but counterproductive and that one should try to do nothing, meaning that literally not to do nothing, but to follow the forces of nature and to shape the flow of events and not to pit oneself against the nature order of things, meaning that we should be spontaneous with our actions. Laozi also was recognized by all of his quotes about life and experiences, for example one of his quotes says Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her (Lao tzu). Or Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you(Lao Tzu).
Overall LaoTzu(Laozi) have many different legends on how his life really was, nobody is certain since this was over 2000 years ago, but in the legends people saw him as the god of the Taoism. He he showed people the Tao Way, and through his Taoist teachings he tried to lead them to a nonaggressive and harmonious ways of life, and to follow the rhythm of life and nature.