Taoism In 'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung'

This article tried to study Taoism in'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung', which has four sections.At the beginning, the writer explained the reasons for subject choosing, clarifying the current situations in this field and setting up the study's foundations. He described the past 30-year investigations on'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung', general information of its author–Xie Liu, Xie Liu's thoughts and his work's tendency, and'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung'thoery domain.Next, from the writer's view, he clarified Taoism conception and domain. He summarized Taoism in the ancient literatures, which are described as: the thought of Taoism is a philosophy based on Tao and Inactions; Tao is invisible and cannot be tracked, which is the thing's internal law and the origin of everything worldwide. After that, the writer defined Taoism scientifically. He split Taoism into two categories: narrow-sense Taoism and wide-sense Taoism. Narrow sense Taoism referred to Taoism before Qin Dynasty, while the latter one indicated the mixture with original religion thoughts and philosophy from Chinese culture, philosophy, and scientific technology. The author of this article tried to survey views on the philosophy section of wide-sense Taoism.Again, the writer demonstrated the links between Taoism and'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung'. He first listed'HANSHU - Yiwen Records'and'SUISHU–Jingji Records'to prove it, then used the predecessors'notes and modern scholars'studies to support it.Finally, the writer disserted Taoism's Indispensability in'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung'. He has three arguments to uphold his own points: Taoism is one of the origin of Chinese traditional ideologies; the mixture of Confucianism and Taoism is thoughts mainstream at the time of Xie Liu, author of'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung'; and Taoism will be theoretical spirit of'Wen-hsin Tiao-lung'.