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A statue of Laozi, often spelled Lao Tzu, is credited with writing “The Scripture of the Way and Its Virtue” (“Tao Te Ching” or, more correctly, “Daode jing”).

At that time, Daoism emerged as a way of thinking and living contrary to Confucianism and later evolved into an institutionalized religion during the late Han Dynasty around A.D. 100 to 200.