On the Social Significance of Lao Zi's "Tao"

The core of Lao Zi's ideology is the concept of Tao,the connotation of which is naturalness and through inaction. The Taoist belief in administration is that when success comes,people say I did it naturally. The two mutual-complementary and indispensable aspects in his thought are action and inaction.Lao Zi criticized the Confucian concepts,such as benevolence,justice and propriety.If we take into consideration the reality of the powerful monarch,we can see that Lao Zi's idea of inaction served as an antidote.However,this idea tends to arouse misinterpretation.And the idea itself is not perfect.