Taoism

           Today in class we read an article titled: Reconstructing Taoism's Transformation in China. The article was about how China wants the concept of Taoism to be "reborn." But what exactly is Taoism? Taoism is a strange but soothing concept when you think about it. Taoism is the idea that life is like a river and we are in that river. A river one flows in one direction, therefore attempting to swim in the opposite direction would be pointless because you will only tire yourself and eventually give into the river. The river will then take you where it wants to take you. This analogy is the idea of Taoism in its simplist terms. Personally I believe that this type of lifestyle is way easier to lead than other lifestyle. Taoism allows the people who believe in it to live a carefree life, a happy life. In China, they mostly had emperors which the Taoist's must have been against considering they believed that everyone deserved the same amounts of equality. In the article, it said that actual evidence was never found on the Taoist, so everything we know is based on the writings of the Taoists.