Seeking a bibliography of Taoist classics, what are the Taoist classics?

1. Taoism has a book that synthesizes all the Taoist scriptures, called "Daozang", which is equivalent to the status of the Confucian Siku Quanshu. It's actually not a separate classic, it's a collection.

Alone, such as the Taoist Three Classics: Tao Te Ching (Laozi), Nanhua Jing (Zhuangzi), Qingxu Jing (Liezi) and others are more, widely known such as "Hug Puzi" (Ge Hong), "Sitting and Forgetting Theory" (Sima Chengzhen), "Dao Theory" (Zhang Sanfeng).

2. In addition, many famous doctors in ancient times were Taoist priests, and the works of great doctors such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "Sun Simiao", and Zhang Zhongjing can also be regarded as Taoist classics. In addition, martial arts are not separated, and the works of many great martial artists such as Sun Lutang and others can also be regarded as Taoist classics.

The most classic Taoist works are Laozi (Tao Te Ching) and Zhuangzi (Nanhua Zhenjing). If you expand it a little, you can add "Liezi", "Hug Puzi" and so on. If the scope is expanded a little further, there is a "Thirteen Classics of Taoism" for reference.

Taoist classics include "Zhuangzi", "Tao Te Ching", "Zhou Yi", "Taishang Induction Chapter", "Jade Emperor Sutra", and "Xisheng Sutra".

Tao Te Ching", "Nanhua Sutra", "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period".

The three most classic books of Taoism: "Tao Te Ching", "Four Sons True Scripture", and "Taishang Induction Chapter".

Tao Te Ching" is also known as "Lao Tzu" or "Five Thousand Words", Taoism will respect it as "Tao Te Ching", it is the Taoist Taoist ancestor Lao Tzu in the west of the letter to Guguan, at the invitation of Yin Xi, leaving a classic of five thousand words. "Tao Te Ching" takes Taoism and nature as the core, and expounds how to make people's personal self-cultivation achieve less selfishness and few desires, and how to make people's life achieve the unity of heaven and man, which is also the foundation of Taoism and the perfect elaboration of "Tao".

Nanhua Zhenren is Zhuangzi, a representative figure of Taoism during the Warring States Period, named Zhou, and the word Xiu. Taoism enshrines his "Zhuangzi" as the "Nanhua Zhenjing", and the "Nanhua Zhenjing" further expounds the origin of "Tao" on the basis of inheriting Laozi's Taoist thoughts.

"Taishang Induction Chapter" and "Wenchang Emperor Jun Yin Qi Wen" are Taoist books of persuasion, among which "Taishang Induction Chapter" is known as "the first good book in ancient and modern times", and the book is always advising the world to accumulate virtue and do good.

Taoist thought is a school of thought in ancient times, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when Taoism used "Tao" to improve the relationship between nature, society and life. Taoism advocates the Tao of nature, the rule of inaction, and the harmony with nature.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Lao Tzu collected the great wisdom of the ancient sages, summarized the essence of ancient Taoist thought, and formed a complete systematic theory of Taoism, marking that Taoist thought has been formally formed. His doctrine takes "Tao" as the highest philosophical category, believing that "Tao" is the highest truth of the world, "Tao" is the origin of all things in the universe, and "Tao" is the basis for the survival of all things in the universe. The representative figures of Taoism include Laozi, Zhuangzi, Liezi and so on.

Taoist classics include Tao Te Ching, Taoist Yi, Zhuangzi, Liezi, and Nine Books.

1. Tao Te Ching

The philosophical works written by Lao Tzu in the Spring and Autumn Period, also known as "Tao Te Ching", "Lao Tzu", "Five Thousand Words" and "Five Thousand Texts of Lao Tzu", are a work before the separation of the sons of the pre-Qin Dynasty in ancient China, and are an important part of Taoist philosophical thought. The Tao Te Ching is divided into two parts, the original text of the first part of the "Book of Virtues", the next part of the "Book of Virtues", not divided into chapters, and later changed to "The Book of Virtues" 37 chapters in front, after the 38th chapter is the "Book of Virtues", and is divided into 81 chapters.

2, "Taoist Yi".

It is a school of Yi Xue, and Mr. Chen Gu Fu Mengying said in "Pre-Qin Taoist Yi Xuefa Wei": "Yi Chuan" uses Taoist Taoism to explain the law of world change.

3, "Zhuangzi".

Also known as the "Nanhua Sutra", it is a summary of Taoist doctrines written by Zhuangzi and his followers in the middle and late Warring States period. Zhuangzi's essays, imaginary fantasy, ingenious conception, colorful ideological world and literary artistic conception, the writing is unbridled, with a romantic artistic style, magnificent and treacherous, and the meaning is out of the dust, which is a model work of the articles of the pre-Qin Zhuzi. The book "Zhuangzi" reflects Zhuangzi's critical philosophy, art, aesthetics, aesthetics, politics, society and many other aspects.

4, "If the Column is Missing, the Bridge".

Also known as "Chong Xuan Zhenjing", according to legend, it was written by the Warring States Column, and was later respected as "Chong Xuan Zhenjing", and its doctrine was praised by the ancients as the way to win. The main idea of his thought is close to that of Lao Zhuang, and it pursues a realm of rushing to the void and nature.

5. "Nine Books".

Yi Yin Nine Masters is the third of the four ancient Taoist books after the first book of the silk book "Lao Tzu", and it is one of the fifty-one articles of the Taoist "Yi Yin" in the "Hanshu Art and Literature Chronicles". Its clear division, the law of ropes, the judgment of names and orders, and the discussion of the right path and mistakes of the south of the monarch have a profound impact on "Shen", "Han", "Lü Lan", "Guanzi" and Huang Lao Silk Book.

The above content refers to Encyclopedia-Taoism.