Nowadays, confucianism and Taoism are one, but in history, they have hated each other and killed each other.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Dao was still only Taoist, not Yet Taoist, and this period basically meant that Zhuangzi loved to blacken Confucius.
Zhuangzi is nearly 200 years younger than Confucius, and Zhuangzi is a philosophical work that we can look at as fables and passages, and the credibility of the stories in it is almost zero. We are most familiar with the "Getaway" in the middle school textbook, which begins with "There is a fish in the north of the earth, and its name is Kun." The size of the carp is not known to be thousands of miles", the volume of this carp is already an order of magnitude compared to the earth.
The so-called carp on the Internet, this carp is at best a few miles long, the picture comes from the network
The most tragic time confucius was hacked by Zhuangzi came from the "Zhuangzi Miscellaneous Articles - Thieves (zhí])", the thief was the boss of the underworld in the Spring and Autumn Period, burning and looting everywhere, eating people's livers, and having powerful private armies, and the princes at that time were afraid of him. It is said that the thief's name is Liu Xia hui, for the younger brother of the famous scholar Liu Xia Hui at that time, Liu Xia Hui is the one who sits in peace, Confucius decided to help Liu Xia Hui to persuade this brother, but the result was that the thief scolded a lot, the content of the scolding is very long, probably means that you Kong Lao'er used the Confucian set of hypocritical things, seduced the princes, fooled the people, the crime is extremely evil, it is simply "thief mound", and then do not get out of the egg, Lao Tzu cut your liver and drank.
Frightened, Confucius fled, and the horse whip fell off three times on the road, and after running back, he said to Liu Xiahui, fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise I would have no life.
Books in special periods use this kind of blind story to criticize Confucius, and the pictures come from the Internet
Liu XiaHui was actually nearly a hundred years older than Confucius, and it was clear that this story was made up, not only by Zhuangzi himself. Because the Zhuangzi Miscellaneous Works itself is a pseudo-book, it was actually written in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and later compiled and included in the Zhuangzi.
There are many ancient pseudo-books, such as the "Book of Shang" in the five classics of the ancient imperial examination standard textbook, which is a completely fake book, the real book has been lost during the Jin Yongjia Rebellion, and the ridiculous pseudo-book has been used as a textbook for examinations for more than a thousand years.
During the Han Dynasty, Taoism gave birth to Taoism, Buddhism was introduced, a local religion, a foreign religion, the contradiction between the two became increasingly acute, they began to attack each other, and Confucianism most of the time stayed out of the matter, became the object of Buddhist Taoism.
Historical records record that after Lao Tzu left the Hangu Pass in the west, he did not know his end, and Lao Tzu's whereabouts became a mystery for eternity. This gave space for future generations to play, and during the Three Kingdoms period, Yu Feng recorded in the "Biography of Wei Liu Xi Rong" that Lao Tzu went out of the customs and went to India to teach 29 Futu disciples. The Western Jin Dynasty Daoist monk Wang Fu compiled a book of Lao Tzu Hua Hu Jing, which says that Lao Tzu went to India after leaving Hangu Pass, reincarnated as Shakyamuni, Buddha is the Tao, and Lao Tzu is Shakyamuni. This is the origin of Lao Tzu's nonsense.
Lao Tzu rides a bull, the picture comes from the internet
Not to be outdone, Buddhism points out that the Buddha was born 400 years before Lao Tzu, and that Lao Tzu's transformation of Hu is nonsense. In fact, after modern research, Lao Tzu may have been only 6 years older than Shakyamuni and 20 years older than Confucius, and the three founders of Confucianism lived in exactly the same era, Confucius had greeted Lao Tzu many times, and India was too far apart, and it was unlikely that Buddha had contact with Confucius and Laozi.
In order to counter the Taoist theory of huahu, the Buddhists compiled a "Pure Dharma Sutra", which says that the Buddha sent three disciples to China to preach, namely Confucian Bodhisattva, who is called Kong Qiu, Guangjing Bodhisattva, who is called Yan Hui; and Mokoga Ye, who is called Laozi. Both Confucius and Lao Tzu are classified as disciples of the Buddha.
If I were a Taoist, I would definitely have made up Lao Tzu's west out of Hanguguan, went to India, and pointed out the indian prince Gautama Siddhartha of the Kapilava Kingdom, who after being taught by Lao Tzu, began to practice monasticism and founded Buddhism; if I were a Buddhist, I would have made up that the Buddha's fame had spread to Middle-earth, Confucius heard about it, regardless of his old age, he went to India to seek Buddha's teachings, and if he was too old, he could also make up Lao Tzu to worship the Buddha as a teacher, and it was called." Mokoga leaf", so that the story is much more reasonable.
Not only in the academic circles, but also in folklore, for example, the "Fengshen Yanyi" is based on Taoist stories, the three disciples of Hongjun Laozu' Taishang Laojun, Yuan Shi Tianzun, and Tongtian Sect Master (Lingbao Tianzun) are the most bullish characters in the novel, but there are also two characters of their generation in the novel, namely the Two Saints of the West, that is, the Zhun Ti Dao (Amitabha) and the Guide Daoist (Bodhi Ancestor), the two were assigned to lead some Of the Taoists to found the Western Religion, and the Western Religion belongs to the taoist sub-religion, which is obviously to degrade the Buddha and promote the Tao.
Taoist Sanqing, picture from the Internet
In "Journey to the West", the reverse is reversed, the Heavenly Court obviously represents Taoism, and there is nothing that can be done with Sun Monkey, and finally the Western Rulai must be invited to suppress the monkey under the Five Elements Mountain, and finally the Western Tianzhu is also obtained by seeking the True Scriptures.
The two religions of Buddhism and Taoism are not only simple to fight a war of words, not only in literature, but also in martial arts, and there have been many campaigns to extinguish Buddhism in history, the most important of which are the Destruction of Buddha by Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, the Destruction of Buddha by Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, the Destruction of Buddha by Emperor Wuzong of Tang, and the destruction of Buddhism by Emperor Shizong of Northern Zhou. The campaign to exterminate Buddhism is mainly political and economic, but it is driven by Taoist and Confucian forces. The main means of the campaign to exterminate Buddhism are to reclaim the land of Buddhist temples, destroy Buddhist statues and temples, and force monks to return to the laity.
The Afghan Giant Buddha, which was blown up by the Taliban, is a modern anti-Buddhist movement, and the picture comes from the Internet
Because of the local religion, the Taoist idea of escaping the world has also led to the prosperity of Taoism has always been incomparable with Buddhism, so that the Taoist Guanyu is not as rich as the Buddhist temples, and it is not easy to suffer from the jealousy of the rulers, so the anti-Buddhism movement has appeared many times, but the Extinction Movement has not happened once, but in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Rulers ordered all the books on Laozihua nonsense to be burned.
In fact, Buddhas and Taos demean each other, but in essence, they do not deny each other, but admit that each other's idols are saints, which is only a status struggle, not to the point where you live and die, and even Lao Tzu's statement of Hua Hu itself has the acquiescence of people in Buddhism, which is a strategy for localization of Buddhism. So after two thousand years of development, the Buddhist Taoism has actually been integrated with each other, you have me, I have you, and together we have the Confucians who are watching from the sidelines, and finally realized the unity of the three religions, and even some places have built "three religions temples", which are the temples where the buddha, Taoism, and Confucianism are united, and the statues of Laozi, Confucius, and Buddha are sitting on the main hall, and the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are fighting over each other, but they are only competing for who sits in the middle.
Three Sects Temple, picture from the network
Or to end with a sentence from the Tao Te Ching that I like: Husbands are indisputable, so the world cannot compete with them!