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老子的自然之道（Lao Zis way of nature） Role: speaker Shi an Yan Identity: Professor of history and doctoral supervisor of Nanjing University Brief introduction of the author: 1998-1999 Harvard University Yenching visiting scholar. Professional ideological history of ancient China, has published a monograph, translation of more than 40 papers. Related works have won the first national youth outstanding social science paper award three prize, Jiangsu outstanding social science achievement award two prize. First of all, to explain that the Tao as the guiding principle of social life is not the highest criterion proposed by Lao tzu. One hundred or two hundred years before Laozi, the concept came into being. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty after the demise of the Zhou people group into the Central Plains, their thoughts have great changes and influence on the later development of thought is also great. According to the book of history in the literature shows that the period of an important ideological concept no road, such as talking about God, about the destiny, jingde. The inscription inside the word of the Western Zhou Dynasty there, it is a common word, is the way. In the history of ancient thought, every thought of the times has some core concepts to sum up the main values of that era. Tao is not the core concept in the early years of Western Zhou dynasty. In Zuozhuan records according to around eighth Century BC to seventh Century, Tao became a core concept of noble thoughts. Why is this change? Because the business week lasted for a long period of religious belief in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty began to collapse, the ancient people thought has undergone great changes, the original belief without the original meaning, the collapse of the world, they need to rethink the foundation of the world, to find a guiding the principle of. Before Confucius and Lao Tzu, a number of concepts emerged in the early years of the spring and Autumn period. Tao had a very importan