Taoism Culture

The Taoism culture is numerous, colorful and all-encompassing, its content is complex; to be summed up, there are mainly the following aspects: Taoism Theology
In complex Taoist culture, it has one core, namely, the Taoism god belief. Taoism as a mature religion, it has its own theories of the theology and there, and it has one religious belief goal to attract the pursuit of the people. This belief is that the people can become immortal and omnipotent gods through great efforts. This immortal faith is the core of scientific theory elucidated by the Taoism. At the beginning of the Taoism, it had established the belief of the immortal, and also in that period, the Taoism also absorbed a lot of ingredients from ancient philosophy, religion and the ancient health exercise and other health behaviors to form its theory and behavior system of god belief, laid the theological foundation for the Taoism development. Under the attraction of this "magnet" of "fairy faith", the Taoists carried out cultural activities of absorption and development to create vast and complex system of Taoist culture.

Taoist ethics
Taoist ethical thinking reflects Taoism canon and discipline. Ethical and moral concepts of the Taoism, absorbs both the ethical and moral values of the Taoism, but also absorbed ethical and moral values of both Confucianism and Buddhism, therefore, its content became more and more, and increasingly complex. One of Confucianism ethics, very significant impact to the Taoist, is three cardinal guides and the five constant virtues with main axis of loyalty and filial obedience thinking. But its difference from the Confucian, Taoism ethics is mainly implemented by the power of the gods. The Taoism, on the one hand, guide the people consciously abide by ethics with beautiful illusion of immortality longevity; on the other hand, the Spirit power of blessing the good and punishing the evil forces the people to comply with the ethics. The combination of positive guidance and negative intimidation makes moral and ethical standard play greater impact in the society. In addition, Taoist moral book brings the Taoist ethical and moral thinking more focused, more systematic and more popularized.

Taoism philosophy
The Taoism was previously considered to be a low-level popular folk religion with only a few near-witch craft, vegetarian education, science instrument, but without philosophical speculation. But now the majority of the scholars think that the Taoism has its philosophical content. Taoist philosophy is served to its doctrine and is the ideological and theoretical foundation of its teachings, in other words, the philosophical argument of the Taoist doctrine is Taoist philosophy. The thinking material of the Taoist philosophy comes from Chinese philosophy at the very the beginning, mainly Taoist philosophy. The Taoism use significantly rational arguments of Taoist philosophy, so as to make Taoism thought contain worldview, epistemology, ethics, life view and other philosophy contents, and these contents are basic scope and composition of Taoism philosophy. "Dao"(law) that the Gods are immortal, becomes the central category of Taoism philosophy, gods existence and the people becoming immortal is basic proposition, the arguments about whether the people become the gods and how the people become the gods becomes the major side of its ideology.

Taoism alchemy

The alchemy is an important Taoist alchemy, including internal alchemy and external alchemy. Dan, known as the external alchemy, is also as external yellow and white Dan. For external Dan, cinnabar, lead, mercury, sulfur are taken as main raw materials, they are put into the oven tripod after mixing with other drugs and burned with the means of "flying burning", "pumping burning", "compressing burning", "sealing burning", "spraying burning" and other burning means so as to make the people immortal and become the gods after taking the miracle drug. Because they believe in becoming the immortality after taking miracle drug, all of the Taoists had refined the miracle drug with their great efforts. While taking the final and the Taoists can not live forever after taking the miracle drug, but they had accidentally pushed the development of science in ancient China in the process of alchemy. With the gradual decline of external alchemy, internal alchemy had replaced it by raising the body refining with essence, energy and spirit. The internal alchemy combines and inherits from air breathing, embryo-type breathing, holding to the one, and keeping thinking, and other exercises, which have great influence on Qigong later.

Taoism medical science

Since the foundation of the Taoism, Taoism medical science has just taken the medicine as its means of public preaching and helping. And with the establishment of theoretical system of the Taoism immortal in Wei and Jin dynasty, the Taoists had even taken the medicine as necessary adjunct means of the pursuit & longevity and essential knowledge. The thought of Taoism medical science "Law of nature" is the theoretical guidance, which has been further developed to form human medical thinking with highly distinctive feature of the Taoism. After a long tradition of Taoist medical practice, the wealth of medical experience has been accumulated with innovation and invention of a variety of medical and physical exercises method for health and longevity, such as Taoist sexual practices, edibility and monarch cereal and so on.

Taoism literature and art

Taoist literature and art is various forms of literary and artistic works to promote the Taoist teachings, immortal longevity and reflect its religious life and thought theme. Taoist literature and art can expand the social impact, and improve the religion quality of the Taoism. In turn, the immortal belief of the Taoism but also brings great influence to the development of Chinese literature and art. In Taoism teachings, some teachings are only the literary works in their own, and the music, palace architecture, fairy images, etc. in Taoism also have high artistic value. In China's literary and artistic works, the works and scripts on the Taoism and the gods are countless, the close relationship can be seen between Taoism and literature and art.