Heavily influenced by his wife Empress Dou, who was an adherent to Taoism, Emperor Wen governed the country with the general policies of non-intereference with the people and relaxed laws.

Taoism was introduced to Korea from China during the Three Kingdoms period, and remains a minor but significant element of Korean thought.

He is a figure in Chinese folk religion, popular Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism, and small shrines to Guan are almost ubiquitous in traditional Chinese shops and restaurants.

Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism became popular among Bulgarians in the time of perestroika and especially after the fall of communist regime and are usually a co-religion or co-belief to Bulgarians who otherwise are Christians ( Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy ).

Over time, the religions of Buddhism and Taoism borrowed popular deities from each other in attempts to attract devotees to their temples.

Elliot, which he used to collectively name Chinese folk religions, as the ethnic religion of the Hans, which encompasses Taoism, and the worship of the shens, a collection of various local ethnic deities, heroes and ancestors, and figures from Chinese mythology, among which the most popular ones in recent years have been Mazu ( goddess of the seas, patron of Southern China ), Huangdi ( divine patriarch of all the Chinese, " Volksgeist " of the Chinese nation ), the Black Dragon, Caishen ( god of prosperity and richness ), and others.

Reverence for nature and ancestor spirits is common in popular Taoism.

Note that in this context Confucianism can be referred to as the state cult, and Taoism as the popular religion.

This, however, may be accounted for by the unclear delineation between Taoism and Buddhism in popular perception.

Nominally, Animism is the most popular practice, but recently most Tay people practice Mahayana Buddhism in combination with Taoism, under influenced of Vietnamese and Chinese culture.

Currently, it is the third most popular faith in Taiwan ( after Buddhism and Taoism ).

According to J. C. Cooper's " Chinese Alchemy: The Taoist Quest for Immortality ," Taoism had two distinct parts, the classical Tao Chia, which was mystical and stemmed primarily from Laozi and Zhuangzi, and the more popular Tao Chiao, which was the popular, magical and alchemical side of Taoism.

Popular Taoism typically presents the Jade Emperor as the official head deity.

He is variedly worshiped as an indigenous Chinese deity, a bodhisattva in Buddhist tradition and as a guardian deity in Taoism and many religious bodies.

Emperor Huizong then bestowed upon Guan Yu the title of " Immortal of Chongning " ( 崇寧真君 ), formally introducing the latter as a deity into Taoism.

Also, there are 36 generals and a group of Devine warriors under his dominion ; anyhow, as is depicted in myth of Chinese Taoism, he is the commander of a huge deity system in the Northern Pole, in which a great number of valiant deity generals and warriors who all controlled by the Emperor Zi-Wei.

In Chinese mythology, Lei Gong ( 雷公 ) ( Chinese: " Duke of Thunder "), also called Lei Kung, or Lei Shen (“ Thunder God ”), is the Chinese Taoist deity who, when so ordered by heaven, punishes both earthly mortals guilty of secret crimes and evil spirits who have used their knowledge of Taoism to harm human beings.

When Daoji died at the Jing Ci monastery on the 14th day of 5th Lunar month ( 17 June 1207 ), syncretic Taoism began to revere Daoji as a god from heaven and later adopted him as a deity.

Taoism ( Daoism ) is a philosophy and later also developed into a religion based on the texts the Tao Te Ching ( Dào Dé Jīng ; ascribed to Laozi ) and the Zhuangzi ( partly ascribed to Zhuangzi ).

Although it serves as a rival to Confucianism, a school of active morality, this rivalry is compromised and given perspective by the idiom " practise Confucianism on the outside, Taoism on the inside.

The opposition and combination of the universe's two basic principles of yin and yang is a large part of Chinese philosophy, and is an important feature of Taoism, both as a philosophy and as a religion.

Philosophical Taoism also proposes a transcendent operant principle — transliterated in English as tao or dao, meaning ' the way ' — which is neither an entity or a being per se, but reflects the natural ongoing process of the world.

In religious Taoism, Lao Tsu is venerated as a saint with his own powers.

The provenance of the pronunciation with of Taoism is a gap in the English phonemic paradigm for the unvoiced unaspirated in dào ' way '.

An inherent problem with the arcane Wade – Giles use of apostrophes to differentiate aspiration is that many English readers do not understand it, which has resulted in the frequent mispronunciation of Taoism as instead of.

In loanword terminology, English Taoism / Daoism is a " calque ", " loan-rendering ", or " hybrid " that blends a borrowed word with a native element, for example, chopstick ) blends Chinese Pidgin English chop (< Cantonese kàp, pinyin kuài 快 " fast ; quick ") with English stick.

Taoism / Daoism is one of a few Chinese-ism borrowings, along with Confucianism, Mohism, and Maoism.

The English word Taoism is unquestionably older and more familiar than Daoism.

Some prefer the Wade-based Taoism because it is more familiar than Daoism and because the borrowing is a fully assimilated English word anyway ; such words are generally unaffected by later systems of romanization.

The text is fundamental to both philosophical and religious Taoism ( Daojia,, Pinyin: Dàojiā ; Daojiao,, Pinyin: Dàojiào ) and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism, Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Daoist words and concepts.

Philosophical vacuity is a common theme among Asian wisdom traditions including Taoism ( especially Wu wei " effortless action "), Buddhism, and some aspects of Confucianism.

The relation between Taoism and Buddhism and Chan Buddhism is complex and fertile.

Similarly, the relationship between Taoism and Confucianism is richly interwoven, historically.

Often referred to as Gaianism, or the Gaian Religion, this spiritual aspect of the philosophy is very broad and inclusive, making it adaptable to other religions: Taoism, Neo-Paganism, Pantheism, Judeo-Christian Religions, and many others.

" It is not a personal god, but rather an impersonal divinity similar to the Tao of Taoism.

While the general concept of a " Spirit " that permeates the cosmos is a general feature of most religions ( e. g. Brahman in Hinduism and Tao in Taoism and Great Spirit among Indigenous peoples of the Americas ), the term Holy Spirit specifically refers to the beliefs held in the Abrahamic religions.

The story is likely to have its origin in Taoism.

In Taoism, the Seven-Star Lamp qi xing deng 七星燈 is a seven-branched oil lamp lit to represent the 7 stars of the Northern Dipper.

The early Taoism of Lao Zi and Zhuangzi is also sometimes considered pantheistic.

In the tradition of its leading thinkers Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, Taoism is comparable with Pantheism, as The Tao is always spoken of with profound religious reverence and respect, similar to the way that Pantheism discusses the " divinity " of the Universe.

Of the many schools founded at this time and during the subsequent Warring States Period, the four most influential ones were Confucianism, Daoism ( often spelled " Taoism "), Mohism and Legalism.

In speech, Tao and Taoism are often pronounced and, reading the Chinese unaspirated lenis (" weak ") as the English voiceless stop consonant.

Therefore, different branches of Taoism often have differing beliefs, especially concerning deities and the proper composition of the pantheon.

In Confucianism and religious forms of Taoism these are often explicitly moral / ethical arguments about proper behavior, while Buddhism and more philosophical forms of Taoism usually refer to the natural and mercurial outcomes of action ( comparable to karma ).

Despite tremendous individual variation, chaos magicians ( sometimes called " chaotes ") often work with chaotic and humorous paradigms, such as the worship of Hundun from Taoism or Eris from Discordianism.

The emphasis laid upon landscape painting in the Song period was grounded in Chinese philosophy ; Taoism stressed that humans were but tiny specks amongst vast and greater cosmos, while Neo-Confucianist writers often pursued the discovery of patterns and principles that they believed caused all social and natural phenomena.

It is the universal symbol of the religion known as Taoism and is also often used by non-Taoists to represent the concept of opposites existing in harmony.

Emperors who favoured Taoism and Buddhism neglecting the worship of Heaven were often seen as anomalous.

While Taoism is often regarded in the West as arising from Laozi, Chinese Taoists claim the Yellow Emperor formulated many of their precepts.

In the Chinese philosophical systems of Taoism and Confucianism, Tian is often translated as " Heaven " and is mentioned in relationship to its complementary aspect of Dì ( 地 ), which is most often translated as " Earth ".

In folk religion, he is often called and traditionally held to be the founder of Shugendō, a syncretic religion incorporating aspects of Taoism, Shinto, esoteric Buddhism ( especially Shingon Mikkyō and the Tendai sect ) and traditional Japanese shamanism.

At the center of Taoism lies the notion of Wu wei ( often translated ; action through inaction ).

The word was first originated from ancient China ; although nowadays it is more often used in Buddhism, in fact it first appeared in the Taoism classic-Zhuang Zi.

Because of the name, I-Kuan Tao is often assumed to be Taoist, and Taoism does indeed form part of its heritage.