
How influential is Laozi to the later generations?
老子思想博大精深,是中華文化的寶藏,其影響廣泛滲透於中華民族傳統思想、社會科學、人文科學、自然科學等諸多領域。

細數漢代著名帝陵
長陵亦稱「長山」或「長陵山」,位於今天陝西省咸陽市渭城區窯店鄉三義村北,呈覆斗形,封土堆完整,漢代的開國之君漢高祖劉邦就長眠於此。長陵坐北朝南,居高臨下,南面是川流不息的渭水,北面是巍峨壯觀的九嵕山。

老子有何政治及軍事思想?
老子的政治思想中也體現着「道」。他認為,「道」是世間萬物的基本形態,不僅是萬物的變化規律,也是人的意識、行為的發展變化規律,他說「民不畏威,則大威至」,從中可以看出他認為執政者的地位是由人民群眾決定的。

認識老子的哲學思想
老子作為中國古代哲學先哲、思想先驅、道家學派創始人,其思想內涵博大精深。諾貝爾獎獲得者、比利時學者普利高津(I . Prigogine)說:「道家的思想,在探究宇宙和諧的奧秘、尋找社會的公正與和平、追求心靈的自由和道德圓滿三個層面上,對我們這個時代都有新啟蒙思想特質。」

Laozi
Laozi was a great thinker and philosopher who is regarded as the founder of both philosophical and religious Daoism. The Daode jing or, Classic of the Way and Virtue is attributed to him.

Han and Tang Imperial Mausoleums
Thirteen Chinese dynasties established their capitals in today’s Xi’an, Shaanxi province, leaving behind more than seventy imperial mausoleums as well as a large number of attendant or satellite tombs for lesser nobility. This is aptly expressed by the folk ballad: “Wits abound in Jiangnan (south of Yangtze), strong men abound in Shandong; / But emperors abound underneath the loess of Shaanxi.”