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1、TheTaoTeChingTranslationbyGiaFuFeng&JaneEnglishCommentsandlayoutbyThomasKnierimTableOfContentsTableOfContents..............................................................................................................1AboutTheTaoTeChing............................

2、.......................................................................2AboutLaoTzu...................................................................................................................3YinAndYang.........................................................

3、...........................................................4TheTranslation..................................................................................................................5TaoTeChing,www.thebigview.comPage1AboutTheTaoTeChingTheTaoTeChingwaswrittenin

4、Chinaroughly2,500yearsagoataboutthesametimewhenBuddhaexpoundedtheDharmainIndiaandPythagorastaughtinGreece.TheTaoTeChingisprobablythemostinfluentialChinesebookofalltimes.Its81chaptershavebeentranslatedintoEnglishmoretimesthananyotherChinesedocument.TheTaoTeChingprovi

5、desthebasisforthephilosophicalschoolofTaoism,whichisanimportantpillarofChinesethought.Taoismteachesthatthereisoneundividedtruthattherootofallthings.Itliterallymeans:=tao(theway)=te(strength/virtue)=ching(scripture)TheversesoftheTaoTeChingarewritteninancientChinese,w

6、hichisverydifferentfromEnglish.AbstractionandlogicarenotdistinguishingmarksoftheancientChineselanguage,hence,itislessrigidthanEnglishandthereareveryfewformalorgrammaticalstructures.TheclassicalChineseworddoesnotstandforasingleconcreteidea,butitevokesassociationsofdi

7、fferentideasandthings.QuiteafewChinesewordscanbeusedasnouns,adjectivesandverbsatthesametime.Thussentencescomposedofvarioussignshaveasortofsuggestivepower,evokingemotions,ideasandpictures.ItisalmostimpossibletorenderanancientChinesetextproperlyinEnglishwithoutlosings

8、omepart.DifferenttranslationsoftheTaoTeChingmayappearascompletelydifferenttexts.Inordertounderstandtheoriginaltextfullyitishelpfultoreadva