Tao Te Ching
Huangdi 國語
(The Yellow Emperor)
2698 – 2598 BCE
Taoist patron saint, founder of Chinese civilization
Considered the initiator of Chinese civilization, ancestor of all Han Chinese and patron saint of Taoism, Huangdi is also credited with first establishing a centralized state, inventing the wheel, the magnet, wooden houses, carts, boats, the bow and arrow, astronomy, the calendar, coined money, weaving silk, dying clothes and the first Chinese character writing system. Parts of Lao Tzu’s chapter 6 may have been quoting him. Dreaming of an ideal kingdom, he successfully devoted his reign to establishing a golden age based on wisdom, natural law, and the power of goodness.
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Quotes by Huangdi (3 quotes)
“As surely as bandits hate their chief so do the people of a country resent whatever is over them… (the wise) knowing that a kingdom cannot be mounted get under it; knowing that the people cannot be led he keeps behind them.”
from Internal Book of Medicine
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48. Unlearning
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“When the moon begins to grow, blood and breath are at their fullest, tendons and muscles are at their strongest. When the moon is completely empty, tendons and muscles are at their weakest.”
from Internal Book of Medicine
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“The law of yin and yang is the natural order of the universe, the foundation of all things, the mother of all changes, the root of life and death.”
from Internal Book of Medicine
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Quotes about Huangdi (1 quotes)
“A vigorous soldier-emperor, Huangdi, in a reign of a mere century, gave China the magnet and the wheel, appointed official historians, built the first brick structures in China, erected an observatory for the study of the stars, corrected the calendar, and redistributed the land.”
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“legend, which loves personalities more than ideas, attributes to a few individuals the laborious advances of many generations.”