CHINA: "DAOISM" Wat Wood Confuscious Say???? OVER-SITE??!

dao, ( Chinese: “way,” “road,” “path,” “course,” “speech,” or “method”) Wade-Giles romanization tao,  the fundamental concept of Chinese philosophy. Articulated in the classical thought of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 bce), dao exerted considerable influence over subsequent intellectual developments in China.

Confucius's principles had a basis in common Chinese tradition and belief. He championed strong family loyalty, ancestor worship, respect of elders by their children and of husbands by their wives. He also recommended family as a basis for ideal government. He espoused the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself", an early version of the Golden Rule.