Why is Li Er called Lao Tzu?
This is a combination of myth and human civilization, Lao Tzu is Li Er, Li Er is Lao Tzu, as to why, there are three main reasons.
1, because of the old, so old, no one knows.
Lao Tzu's birth and death years are ominous, there is no record, the history is too long, in fact, to this day do not know where this person was born, the "History" records: "Lao Tzu, surnamed Li, name ear, 谥曰: '聃'. That is to say, Li Er is also called Li Tan. Some people say that Chen Guoren, at that time he should be surnamed Chen Cai, if in the Chu country, he should be surnamed Chu, at that time people were following the national surname, was there an old country at that time, history did not record, in short, the history is so recorded. Because old, so old. It's called Lao Tzu.
<h1>2. He is revered as an ancestor, so he is an emperor, so he is named after Lao Tzu. </h1>
When the Tang Dynasty was established, it honored this Lao Tzu who wrote the Tao Te Ching as an ancestor, so that Lao Tzu became the ancestor of the Li family, and naturally became an emperor, called Emperor Xuanyuan, and the Tang Dynasty also wanted to live forever, but unfortunately hundreds of years later, Jiangshan became Song. One life two, two births three, three births tang dynasty, also born Song dynasty, can also give birth to all things.
The ancients called cultured people Zi, such as Han Feizi, Confucius, etc., so it is normal for Lao Tzu to add a man after him, indicating that Lao Tzu has culture, not only culture, but also thoughts, and is a philosopher. Sometimes the ancients called a literati official position old, which means the meaning of the old man and the predecessor, which is an honorific title, and sometimes the emperor is called old, and at that time there was no emperor, the king, the king, the old may also be the meaning of the later widow, the old is always a symbol of the big.
<h1>3. The mythical Taishang Laojun, the ancestor of Taoism, called Laozi, is indeed in line with it. </h1>
China has mythological stories, Lao Tzu is too shang Lao Jun, why say so, ancient people do not understand natural phenomena, etc., think that many things are very mysterious, Lao Tzu has a "Tao Te Ching" is also very mysterious, can not understand, many people can study Zhou Yi, and even calculate Gua, but for philosophical things, do not know anything, so can not see the "Tao Te Ching", slowly put there is a kind of myth and legend, Lao Tzu into too shang Lao Jun, very mysterious, superstitious Taoist began, of course, Taoism has a lot of philosophy and culture, Then the good one will follow it, which is also what Lao Tzu said.
Sum up:
Why is Li Er called LaoZi, because lao and son at that time were all honorific titles for people, Li Er was good at learning after birth, studied hard, mastered the social and cultural knowledge of the time, extended and developed the traditional Chinese culture, put forward his own ideas and opinions, and posterity respected Lao Tzu, which is because he was old.
The ancients also respected the emperor as old, and in the Tang Dynasty, Li Er was posthumously honored as the Xuanyuan Emperor, so he was old, Li Er was famous all over the world because of the "Tao Te Ching", and even became the founder of Taoist doctrine, in the ancient mythological civilization is taishang Laojun, also very old, so old, worthy of the name, as for where is Li Er, why is the surname Li, I am afraid that there is really a Li state in history, otherwise where does the Surname Li come from?