Lao Tzu is not really a person's name and Actually, it is impossible to prove the historical accuracy ofĪny of these accounts. This man went by the name of Tan, the historian
Nothing more is known about the secondĪccording to a third account, the original Lao Tzu lived 129 years after He is said to be a person of the same age asĬonfucius and is credited with a fifteen-chapter book explaining the ), and he is reported to have given an interview to Confucius when heĬame to Loyang seeking information on the Chou ritual.Īnother man identified as the founder of Taoism was Lao Lai Tzu, whoĪlso came from Ch'u. He was a peer of theįamous Chinese philosopher Confucius (551–479 Records in the Chinese imperial capital of Loyang. Li Erh served as historian in charge of the official Village of Ch'üjen in the southern Chinese state ofĬh'u. The first Lao Tzu was a man named Li Erh or Li Tan, who came from the The biography in fact contains an account of not
Taoism were going around, and Ssu-ma Ch'ien himself was unsure
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