Taoism and Culture

In ancient oriental society, during the time where no proper academia was present, there were no proper school for children to learn basic skills,  teaching methods were only relied on knowledges passed down from one generation to another to learn about the culture, custom and environment around them.

Throughout the years, in a time where apes started to walk as upright man, humans took an interest in understanding the world. They took notes via symbols and passed on the skill from one generation to another. The data that was captured by roaming hermits, herbalists, explorers etc was collectively complied to form a basic principle for the balance of life, living environment and nature, the law of balance formed the fundamental principle later known as ” I-Ching”.

I-Ching was greatly practice by isolated individual referred themselves as Taoists, “Tao Jia” in easier terms means “House Order of Tao” (Taoism pronounced as “Dao”). The word Tao represents several meanings such as Meaningful, Path, Leading to, Way, Reason, Absolute etc. The word itself signifies an Order to everything that around us.

The I-Ching principles became a set of Order can be referred to as certain representation of Science in the ancient world. From this set rules, spawned the development of Chinese Herbal Medicine (measure for the formation of human structure, energy flows and components), Agriculture (measure of periodical changes in time and seasons), Architecture (measure of structure, minerals and materials), Living Methods (measure of Lifestyle and Health) and Prediction (measure in changes using statistics).